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Old 02-16-2010, 10:45 AM   #70
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I have lived with several invisible illnesses but I want to address bipolar depression at this time. I have lived with this for over 25 years. You can not see my pain, depression, anxiety but it is often there. I have always been open and upfront about having this. I find sometimes people will assume because I have had a really bad day or am just burned out or if I am genuinely sad some days it is because I have bipolar. That is not always true. I can have a bad day like everyone else and it can have nothing to do with being bipolar. That assumption pisses me off.
I also don't like to see the treatment or misrepresentation of the mentally ill in society by some of the hospitals, police, commercials, television, cartoons.
I am just naming a few sources where I have seen fun poked at bipolar disorder that was really inapproprite. If some hospitals provided the same treatment to diabetics, heart disease patients, etc... A physical illness, their doors would have been slammed shut by advocate groups.
There have also been threads not on this site but something about an ex being bipolar. So...the ex could not just be a bitch in general?, or simply done with the person or or or... The entire end of that relationship was because the ex had bipolar. EYE ROLL. Many bipolar people are stable and do take their medication.
Thanks for letting me vent SuperFemme.
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