Is this a trick question?

No, not at all. Do you make comments that non bipolars pick up as suicidal?

Yr right.I stop myself now.I really want to say stuff but it just causes a silence of dread or that 'talk to me' stuff.

Yes, it's like walking on eggshells around "sane" people. We have to be extra extra careful so nobody thinks we're going over the edge. A "normal" can blow off steam but we have to tread lightly. It's so exhausting! I have a really great husband but sometimes wish I were living alone b/c then I could be ME without worrying whether he's worrying about me. When I lived w/my parents, my mother would say, "did you take your pill" if I cussed at a car tail gating me. Now, doesn't everyone cuss when someone's tail gating them, or cutting in front of them in traffic? But of course, it was Proof that I was Insane. So I'm sympatico to your plight!

I just don't want to do this anymore....my most common one

yeah, my remarks that i want to die, am going to kill myself, jump off a cliff, dive under a bus, are less funny to other people, it seems. i suppose that's not entirely unreasonable, and it is hard to explain that you just have a morbid sense of humor when you have also had rather a lot of morbid behavior in your life as well. i have finally broken the habit of saying, especially in email, that i want to kill myself.

YAY!!! People get it!

That's SO true.That's the word.
MORBID humour.
Thanks.
Yeah, never had that before to such a degree.Yet still not mean it.

Dobes, you mean it when you say it deadpan, almost like you don't really notice what you said.Until the person tells you.
You KNOW you said it but hadn't realised how THEY respond ?

This is such a subtle and brilliant topic too.
Peace

I tend to be cautious about what I say around those that know.

I too try to watch what I say. People take it so literally when you threaten to kill them! (just kidding about the killing part....mostly)

Oh yes I definitely have just dropped a comment statement and it gets way blown out of proportion by my dh because I am bipolar. Matter of fact happened just last night too.

I am told I am too quiet....this is the reason why!! I don't just watch what I'm saying but around certain people I just say nothing at all!

Yeah, you have to say ME talking now, NOT BP before saying anything that may be taken the wrong way!

Dobie: I feel so bad for you! Not to mention the responses that you received.
When I get down... I talk about suicide... and all hell breaks loose. I'm just "talking" about it!
I'm offended that your responses are ignored, or out of context! I admire that you have the guts to discuss that your family goes into overdrive... because of your simple comment.