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OMG!! Get her!! She's Bipolar!!!
- Aug 18, 2009 at 9:18 AM
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Yep. All Bipolar people are crazy people that go on murderous rampages! They can't be trusted! We must find them all and lock them away in the nut house, throw away the key, and blow up the building!!!
Yes I am being over dramatic. I am getting sick and tired of the stero-types, my kind of people get. We are are human. We bleed, we breathe, we have sex, we cry, we laugh. We just do it a little more extreme then the " normal " person. We are also parents, sisters, friends. Bipolar is a very hard disease to live with. Yes I said disease. It is a mental illness that can be quite debilitating if left untreated. Most of us were born this way. We had no choice. Just like someone who was born with a heart defect, or a someone born with autism.
I am just getting sick and tired of people ASSuming just because someone has Bipolar that they are crazy and incapable of doing normal human things. Or that they will not be a good parent and should have their kids taken away. Most of us you wouldn't even know we had the illness unless we tell you. That's how good we are.
Just do some research on it. Yes it can be scary and hard to understand. But try to understand that we are human beings too. And we deserve the same respect as those who are lucky enough to not have this illness.
This is all I can write for now, I have to go take my youngest to meet her new babysitter, and take my oldest out to my school, where she will attend the "school/daycare" out there. Yes that's right. Bipolar people can even go to school and get jobs.
I might update or revise this later. Thank you!
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I was once diagnosed as being bi-polar. Today I am totally free from it and I take no drugs of any kind. I just want you to know that the diagnosis of it does not mean you have to be that way for life. There is help and there is freedom. I was not born with it; it was brought about by the circumstances of my life and by the not knowing how to handle those circumstances. So don't stop looking for a reason!!!
Thank you ladies. I thought my first paragraph would be an attention getter. I was right!
What happened? Where is this coming from?
It bothered me for the longest time that people would define me by being bi-polar. My sister would introduce me to people as "the bi-polar one' or 'the crazy one', and anytime I got a l ittle irrationsal or upset, the first statement out of everyone's mouth was "Did you take your meds today?!"
I quit taking my meds 5 years ago and, while it's hard, I am myself rather than a drugged up zombie. This isn't to say that there are not some people that the drugs work for, but they never worked for me.
l ittle irrationsal or upset, the first statement out of everyone's mouth was "Did you take your meds today?!"
My husband reacts the same way to me. I have severe depression and am on Zoloft, Topomax, and Abilify. And yes I need them all for any trolls reading this and thinking we are all just exagerrating. I get so frustrated how people open their mouths when they have no knowledge.
Great journal!
...& if meds are making anyone a "drugged up zombie" it's probably because they aren't the right meds for that person.
Thank you everyone for your comments.
I am bi-polar as well or should I say bi-polar 2 meaning I have the depression part of bi-polar and not the mania. when I read the first paragraph I thought I was going to get completely pissed off. Thank you for saying what I have been trying to tell people for a few years now.
After reading your first paragraph I was going to get pissed but soon realized it was an attention getter. It worked. I, too, am bipolar. Have been since my teens but wasn't diagnosed correctly until I was 49. And I take meds but am not drugged up like a zombie...I was at one time but it was because I was on the wrong meds. Thank you for sharing your experience and maybe shedding a little light on this disease that is so misunderstood.
Win
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I was about to go off on this post cause of your first paragraph but then I seen what you were saying.
I am bipolar and use to be embarrassed about it but now I am NOT. There is nothing to be ashamed about:)
HUGS
- shell81
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