Posted by Emme on June 8, 2002, at 23:18:56
In reply to Well Meaning Friends, posted by Roo on June 3, 2002, at 16:17:41
Worse still when the friend giving the well-meaning but painfully off-target advice has a history of full-blown honest-to-god bipolar I !! No lie. Despite all medical wisdom to the contrary she's done great without medication for 15 years and seems to think I should be able to without medication if I just learn to take things in stride (not that being mellow is a bad thing). It's almost as if she has no clue what a mood disorder is. I'm glad she's done so well, but some of the things she's said have hurt so much. I really had to speak up about it and she did take it okay. Otherwise I couldn't have kept the friendship.
Emme
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