That people with BP are inherently dangerous. We aren't sitting at home stewing and planning mass murders.

Lol. While I've never planned mass murders I have had homicidal thoughts. I will admit to that.

LMAO there are a lot of men that raped me that I'd like to kill. Does that count as mass murder????????

Wanting to and doing are two different things. But does that count as planning or just wishful thinking/??

You can't just get over it, everyone has heard this one. It is a brain disorder folks you can't just get over it ever. It is something you have to deal with every day. Believe us we all know. Mood disorders you just don't get over it. Tell us another one. I guess we already debunked this myth.

I don't know how this would go but people say to me .......oh I forget you have an illness........you don't seem like my other clients., friends, family,, 3 eyed monster humans with bipolar..............

really????? we have a flashing light on our forehead saying warning bipolar person approach with caution?

but then you go to a new medical doctor or specialist and they see bipolar and agoraphobia with panic and that is it they don't wan to deal with you ........to them you are not sick physically its all in your head.........................so i guess its the preconceived notions people have your to "normal" to people.............but to professionals they see the print so oh you cant be sick its your bipolar.

Honestly I want to say screw you what do you know from normal you people aren't even normal...........and mr doctor with the fancy degree who just did the testing and found the serious illness that needs surgery .............HA in your face!!!!! :)

I guess I'm doing pretty good with dealing with bp. I haven't had to have any bail money or hide any bodies in awhile!!lol!

Seiously, I think I would like to de-bunk the myth that everything we do is bc we are either manic or depressed. We are humans too that just have "normal" emotions and feelings about things. It's not all bp related.

I echo what many of you have said...that BP is not just something you easily get over or walk away from. I work really f&*%in' hard on my stability.

And also, TRIGGER WARNING: I realize this may not sit well with everyone so I do apologize if I hurt anyone, but I think there's a lot of disturbing myths out there regarding hypersexuality. Like fantasy about it by curious observers. When I was thrown into hospitals getting psychoanalyzed and shredded to pieces with psycho-sexual-Freudian crap possibly by people who go into psychology for all the wrong reasons, I became suicidal dealing with "hypersexuality" at a younger age. It's a really complex matter that I think a lot more people struggle with than might be realized. I am lucky and have worked diligently for years in my relationships and therapy and found my own sense of safety, health and self-awareness, but it's almost like it's just ENTERTAINMENT for certain "observers." I don't even know if what I'm saying makes any sense, but it is based on some really negative experiences I encountered and that's all I can say about it right now.

that we don't complete anything. there are lots of things i have brought to fruition even a couple i have won awards for. there are also things i didn't complete because bp got in the way, who knows maybe i'll take them up again when I'm ready but all anyone ever seems to notice are the things unfinished.
or that everything we say is nuts because we're 'nuts' - it is so dismissive!

I had a good one but it slipped me. This memory thing is getting bad. And Sensitive- I think a lot of people think hypersexuality is just an excuse. Like sex addiction. Tsk, tsk, tsk. This one isn't a myth but it's the most upsetting thing I've been told by someone I told about my disorder. "You're just using it to make yourself feel better for your actions." No worries, I did not punch her.

I've actually had a therapist tell me the symptoms of bipolar are the same for everyone so I wasn't bipolar. We are all different!

Ha ha. Where did he get his degree? From a cereal box?

So true dizzy. Everyone experiences bipolar differently.

my last shrink in NZ started to query my dx as he said "his bipolar patients were hospitalised every year".. like wtf! this is from a supposed medical practitioner.. so you simply can't have BP unless you are hospitalised year after year *sigh*