the most annoying would have to be "Snap out of it" GEEZ...i hate that one!!

It's the one thing that anyone here relates to.
We get angry yet move on.The posts keep appearing and it shows me it's still out there and it saddens me.
" Pull yrself together!" is a classic idiot order.
We can't, we need help pulling ourselves together.

I expected so much mare out of you than this .
Parents told me this after I flunked out of a ez state college.

yup yup...I got that one today...a jab in the butt and I have my stuff together a little hazy but together. I rang my hubby s a teary snotty mess and he was going to come home...Pdoc rang him and told himit was all ok to stay at work...

LOL, Grandiose! "Snap out of it!" Yep, get that one ALL the time & it makes things 10 x worse!!!

An EMT once yelled at me at the hospital for "overreacting" because i called my husband and told him to hurry and get there. "You're just having a panic attack." OH, JUST a panic attack? Is that all? Well then I should feel better, I had to pull over on the interstate because my chest was pounding so hard and I couldn't breathe and thought that this panic attack might actually kill me. Just a panic attack? Well I went off on her and asked her who the hell she thinks she is, dismissing me like I am some kind of attention seeking hypochondriac.

Another favorite-"You can talk yourself out of depression." LMAO how ignorant.

The one that really really got to me was when I was a teenager and a relative who is a surgeon (uncle) said 'depression doesn't ' exist..I was devestated...thankfully, think he's revised his ignorant opinion since.

"What do you have to be depressed about?" an incredulous guy once asked me. How do you even respond to that?

I was told that there is no such thing as the great pumpkin. I was never able to beleave so the great pumpkin never brought me any presents.
on halloween

awww, matt *blows nose in hanky* Say it ain't so!

actually the thing that bugs me the most comes from some ppl here....
like u do 'this' cuz ur bipolar.. ok,, uhh no i have PMS ... or nooooo, not cuz i'm bp, because u really actually hurt my feelings.. u get my point I'm sure..

"You need to get out of bed earlier!"

"If you would get out more, you'd feel better."...totally dismissing the fact that I have been getting out.

"Just stop doing that!" In reference to my self injury.

"You need to work if you can." Even though I get SSDI and would undoubtedly get beyond sick if I attempted to go back to work at this point. How can one work when he or she is in and out of the hospital all the damn time?

I know there are more, but they're all stupid. I once had a guy in a tattoo shop, a nam war veteran, tell me of my numerous scars..."Honey, I've had some pretty bad habits in my life, but nothing like that. You're too young to be doing that!" Amazingly, that didn't anger me, though. Wonder why?

oh yes, someone said to me a few days ago "Watch out, she'll get all BP on your ass." WTF is that supposed to mean? No dummy, I said, if I tell someone off b/c she said something rude that's called sticking up for yourself. ??? Some people.

ireland... if u meant me .... thats exactly what i mean !!! it completely invalidates ur emotions and statements

My mother in law once said paint your toe nails and put on your swim suit. Fix your hair pretty. You'll feel better. How?

She now understands. That was 3 years ago. She "gets it" much better now. I had to keep a straight face from laughing as depressed as I was back then. She meant well.