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.
I have a friend who claims to have chronic pain, and I don't doubt her- but she keeps preaching to me how she handles her pain without drugs. She's also gotten on me about my anxiety medication. She said she understands the feeling, but she really doesn't know what it's like to be me. I tried to explain how it feels (my anxiety) and she said she understands and tried to compare it to heart break. It feels nothing like heart break. I can handle heart break, not crippling anxiety.
I feel like she's looking down on me. She keeps saying I can do it without the meds and they are just a crutch. I want to tell her to go F*** off but I don't want to lose her as a friend.
She really is a good person, but when she says stuff like that it makes me feel weak and like I'm not strong enough.
Have you ever gotten this from anyone?
I feel like she's looking down on me. She keeps saying I can do it without the meds and they are just a crutch. I want to tell her to go F*** off but I don't want to lose her as a friend.
She really is a good person, but when she says stuff like that it makes me feel weak and like I'm not strong enough.
Have you ever gotten this from anyone?
anything : )
For me, I KNOW her words are meant well, and I allow her to say it - she's not in my skin. Like a divorce, really - what others opinions are - its still my choice to leave or not, or fight nor not....
I say the wrong things all the times, expecting my friends not to? Would make me have few friends than the few I have now!! LOL
If she is a true friend, just tell her , you deal with your issues that are comfortable to you...she can deal with her issues , the way she feels comfortable with.
End of story