Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

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vader 06/07/2009

Why are all bi polar people misunderstood? Why is Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel making jokes about us? Is this funny? After Brads suicide...it is now.Bi Polar can be very,very serious and Brad did not take his medication.I take mine everyday and when I dont...I double up.But us bi polar people are just so misunderstood.Now there was a man who killed his neighbor...it was over a dog barking.He was bi-polar.The boy who was shot and killed recently was bi polar...and why are the police pulling a arm on an unarmed man? Do any bi polar people rob banks? Do any bi polar steal police cars? THESE SYSTOMS MEAN THE PERSON NEEDS HELP.WHY SHOOT HIM? anD BI POLAR PEOPLE ARE LOOKED UPON AS FREAKS...YOU SHOULD HEAR SOME OF THE PEOPLE TALK IN THE COFFEE HOUSES HERE.WHY? mAY i ASK SOMETHING IF OPRAH WINIFRY ADMITTED THAT SHE WAS BI POLAR DO YOU THINK THAT PUBLIC WILL ACCEPT US? I just want to be accepted and loved but so far I am all of the neat freaks...the aliens and other men like Brad....Lets unite and do something positive for bi polar people.Way to go!

penny59 06/10/2009

i agree i dont think it right to make jokes about us.. i find it offensive..the stigma of this disease or any mental illness is very sad.. i wish it would change but i dont know when it will. hugs ...marie

deleted_user 06/11/2009

The stimga stinks, I just try to counter it with famous bipolars like Robin Williams, Buzz Aldrin, Dan Rather etc...... It shuts up the assholes

deleted_user 06/11/2009

Ther is some stigma to mental illness labeling, but I guess that's why you should limit who you tell about your condition. If you only tell your closest of friends of loved ones, those who you know won't "attack" you for what youare, then you don't have to worry about it. As for the rest of the world, screw 'em. the say the same things about people w/HIV, midgets, kids w/cleft pallets, etc. The neurotypicals of the world just love to have some non-perfect group to pick on.

vader 06/11/2009

thanks to all of my replies.It is just so nice to hear another side of the coin.Buts lets be fair...we are being blamed for everything and sometimes this isnt not true.Brads problems were his own..not mine and he choose the easy way out and now I dont know what to do.

deleted_user 06/16/2009

Bipolar persons are always misunderstood from my personal experience. They do not know what they are saying when in maina.

vader 06/16/2009

once again...this group is fantastic and I am limiting to whom I tell that I am bi polar.I may start a part time job soon and the people in the work force today--well some of them are a bit funny what you say to them and I brought a new blouse for the occasion for the class.Thanks again...vader.

deleted_user 07/02/2009

I've dated a bipolar and there a huge stigma. The last thing I could do was mention the "b" word but her behavior made it inevitable. The other side of the stigma is refusing to admit that one is not being maintained as well as one could. Lots and lots of denial.

I love her very much and I know she is bipolar. Sometimes I don't think she knows how much I love her. I just want her better maintained. Sometimes I wish I could call it "diabetes". No one cares if your blood sugar is out of whack but have an episode and both the episodee and everyone around her have to "not talk about it". That solves nothing.

SarahZee 07/02/2009

well ben stiller and jim carrey are bipolar.
abraham lincoln was bipolar.
this stupid people need to shut the hell up because we are just people like everyone else and we also learn to be stronger than other "normal" people because they don't know anything. my boyfriend's friend's friend was making fun of me for being bipolar so he punched him and told him that i was way stronger than that douche could ever be.
and we can be whatever we want in life. i want to be a psychologist, so that is what i am going to be.
it just takes extra effort, but other people don't even fucking KNOW. whoever thinks this is funny is disgusting and ignorant.

i am bipolar, i am going to be successful, and i am overall a good person.
their loss if they don't see that.

deleted_user 07/02/2009

I know what you mean.. and i hate it so much... i dont like telling a lot of people about this either... i went on a date a few weeks ago and we got talking about bosses and how much work they have and how they can get on a mood depending whats going on... well he made the comment of "you would think they have bipolar or something they should take meds, i dont wanna talk to anyone whos bipolar they can do anything at anytime" and its like oh buddy if u only knew u just kissed someone whos got bipolar u prob sh** urself!!!! i so hate it when people make comment like that also.... we are so misunderstood...!!!!

deleted_user 07/02/2009

It would make no difference if Oprah said she was Bipolar. There are many famous people who are Bipolar. I think people make fun of things they don't understand and are a little afraid of. People are very, very gradually becoming a little better educated about Bipolar. They still see us as "people who have mood swings and sometimes we lose our tempers over nothing," but it is getting a little better. People either see us as terrible freaks who will kill at the drop of a hat, or else they don't see how devastating the mood swings are.

deleted_user 07/03/2009

Screw 'em...It's a terrible thing when a friend ends their life. My best friend took his and his wife's life...so I know the loss. And, I'm sure, many of us are here in spite of our best efforts to not be. I don't know how to change the stigma. We can spout many names of famous people with our condition, but the ignorant will always be here. I suppose that, in the end, we, as a group need to embrace this insipid monkey on our backs, and become stronger for it...my opinion.

vader 07/03/2009

To all who replied..I thank you.I am finding out even in seattle that some people view people who are bi polar as being possessed by the devil.Shades of Son of Sam..Why do people fear us? I have been so busy now with the house and trying to make it nice.Remember...we must take out medication and do not drink and drive.Brad loved movement.I dont.I am perfectly content being home for the 4th of July weekend.These big celebrations are getting too big and with the budget cuts here in seattle and all over the country...people can still get hurt and Brad was hurt at the festival and thatwas the beginning.So all of you have a wonderful 4th and be careful...vader and the cats...it is going to be 80 today and i am sweating in this house..I have got no air condtionered..

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