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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Does anyone ever feel like BP is a mask that often hides who you really are underneath? Can anyone "see through" the mask? If you don't mind saying, who is it?
My best friend, my husband, one co-worker, and another really good friend.
My best friend, my husband, one co-worker, and another really good friend.
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The rest of the world sees a different MASK all together as they are whom I disassociate from so I am who I need to be in that situation.
I also hide my true self from family because i feel quite vulnerable in showing my real self to others. They definitely wouldn't relate....
This is a toughy. Quite frankly I think that it helps make you who you are. The bipolar person will be really peppy one day and full of life--enthusiastic with desire to learn about monarch butterflies, Persian food and carpentry and you will catch them later on not even wanting to talk to you. It's one of those thingamajigs which you must say "to each their own" to. The world needs all sorts of people to circulate as it should. We are just that group.
-JW
yes I may be shy when I first meet people "usually" I try to be myself. the ones the see me for who I am all the time are some of my friends and my parents. granted I may not like the opinion @ times, but that usually gives me an insite on what I personally need to work on.