Posted by delna on October 10, 2003, at 11:07:20
Hi all
I have bipolar disorder, and am the most stable that I have ever been. However I still have some minor moodswings.
I was wondering how others deal with people and friends. Mainly with potential partners or potential friends.If you dont reveal your illness to someone,
I have found that if you cancel or dont meet someone because you are not feeling well they assume you are an awful person or avoiding them.so you really end up losing people from your life and end up isolated.If you do reveal that you suffer from depression or bipolar most people associate this with a personal weakness and with ordinary sadness and lecture you about learning to deal with life. which is really annoying and minimises the extent of your suffering.
If you do reveal the real nature off the disease saying that it is a chemical imbalance and that only anticonvulsants stabalize you (asin my case)- u are considered as someone eratic and people would rather avoid you as they dont really want to take on the complication of dealing with a seriously mentally ill person.
so which one is better- being mean/nasty: weak: or 'crazy'
neither as far as i am concerened. so how do you build a life- especially a social life or deal with romantic relations.any one else with these problems??
thnx for reading
delna
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