I spit at them.

shoot 'em.

They are just uneducated. Explain to them that it is like a group therapy setting. It is here to help you be able to cope. Then, they will be like "Did you go to that site today?"

Some reatives don't have a clue, but we shouldn't shoot 'em unless we know we're in the will!

I bow to your expertise Tommy.

I spit at them and shoot them. Then I tell everyone that I have already set up my defense with an insanity plea.

I speak right up and ask them if there is a problem?

If all else fails, spit then shoot!

when first DX a medico relative said 'depression doesn't exist'...they've since come around to the reality...but Man, it pissed me off.

I didn't go to thanksgiving this year just for that reason. So maybe when they hear I didn't go because I was bipolar they will research or be educated by the next time we meet. Maybe I will see family at Christmas. I don't want to cause drama because I am afraid someone will trigger a manic stage for me and I will go phucking ape crazy on them.

It's still a Big Secret that I have BP. It really pisses my mother off when I mention it because everybody goes, "WHAT???" Yeah, that time my parents had to RUN to Virginia to the hospital with a LAWYER? It was because I had the Flu. No, really. Please, go read my journal.

my grandpa... then I ask gee grandpa am I more stable in the last year then the last 10... he says ya what did you do stop taking all those meds (mind you I was on 2 meds for cronic pain the last 1`0 yerars) I say no just the opposite I take 5 times as many... and they pronounced me safe to be around normies.... now how do you make you accaptable? ok maybe I left out the last part but i sure thought it

I hear you Lou,

My inpatient pdoc decided it would be a good idea to have my only living sibling come in to a meeting. (Mind you, he never goes to hospitals much less psych units) This was about 5 years ago.

By the end of the meeting, although I got validation that we grew up in a violent and abusive home, he stated he didn't understand why I couldn't just leave it in the past. After all, both our parents were gone now, shouldn't the pain be too. The pdoc tried explaining the PTSD and how it impacts the bipolar, but....he gave me a hug an left. Never did come back again.

Mine say it's a copout and that I'm a "lazy, selfish pig with no drive or ambition"

padsmom, I know thats not true I fight so hard and I have tried so hard to hold a job the past 3 months went through 5 and I keep trying. My Pdoc tells me I am crazy and need to shoot for disability. It's real and not a phucking copout. Until they experience it then they can not critic it.

I work very hard when I do and can work, it's just hard to deal with people and stress sometimes. I am in the process of applying so I can go to school.