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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In the worst time...
I remember registering something in my head..
However well-educated, well-meaning and articulate you may think you are....you will never be able to fully communicate yr Bipolar to others.Even yr closest.
They have their 'view' on you.
They have 'their' version of truth, based on their sanity.
They have never or never will see the first hand tragic masterpiece we are living/dying in.
I really shook when I realised that.
That NO-ONE will know what it's like to be a Bipolar except for the Bipolar themselves.
Insanity and Sanity at a fork in the road.
Travel both roads and it's impossible to be appreciated fully by others.
They will simply criticise you or talk of you like some kept and caged animal in the corner of their room.
There, I'm done ..
I remember registering something in my head..
However well-educated, well-meaning and articulate you may think you are....you will never be able to fully communicate yr Bipolar to others.Even yr closest.
They have their 'view' on you.
They have 'their' version of truth, based on their sanity.
They have never or never will see the first hand tragic masterpiece we are living/dying in.
I really shook when I realised that.
That NO-ONE will know what it's like to be a Bipolar except for the Bipolar themselves.
Insanity and Sanity at a fork in the road.
Travel both roads and it's impossible to be appreciated fully by others.
They will simply criticise you or talk of you like some kept and caged animal in the corner of their room.
There, I'm done ..
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then the next person.we have a common bond with each other. And I say I won't have anything to do with anybody unless the understand me. I am grateful that I do have friends that do.
Shelly, you always put things in a great perspective.
I remember that 'serious' thing.I was so serious I suppose.Not serious enough too.
I hope this wasn't seen just as a vent.It wasn't a vent.I don't know what it was.I really appreciate all the replies. Thanks.
the hardest part of my realtionship with the person i been woith for 2yrs is that i found out throygh paper work i waas packing up because we r moving, is he is bipolar him,self. i was shocked ot find this out,
he just finshed school and has a good job, i am going back to school in the fall to get a better job. when people see us out i n public no would ever guess this, it has made for new challenges in are realtionship howvever they are a blessing. knowing is hard but it gives you a place to start, not knowing leves questions doubt, and no anesers.
Everything is filtered through one's senses, and is therefore nothing more than one's subjective view.
But perhaps that's a bit too esoteric for the point you are trying to make.
'We' don't understand 'them' and better than they understand 'us'.
If we were able to fully understand them, their plight in understanding us would probaly become perfectly clear, understandible, and quite reasonable. And would therefore not 'bug' us so much.
There's plenty of norms walking around who feel that no one understands what it's like to be 'them'. And they're right, too.
I do find it frustrating at times, trying to communicate what it's like being me.
I don't think that anyone is capable of fully understanding anyone else.
I try to keep in mind that it's probably just as frustrating to 'norms' as it is to 'us'. We speak a different language and it seems the neither group is capable of really learning the other's language.