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Sep 30, 2009, 10:22 AM
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Member Since: Jul 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Posts: 2,779
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Perhaps this isn't the answer you'd like to hear but I've had a *diagnosed* mental illness for 24 years and a *correctly diagnosed* mental illness* for 5 years. What all that means is I was first diagnosed in 1985 and then diagnosed again in 2004 with something entirely different and the second diagnosis was bipolar illness, which was correct. And during the entire time, no one really cared to talk about it. Most people simply are not comfortable talking about such things. It is still taboo. Period. Only your closest friends will indulge you. Or your closest relatives. My mother listened but she really didn't understand it all so I drew her pictures. My sister listened after I was truthful with her and told her that I .....well, I told her the details. Also, I told my brothers they needed to talk to their children about this because it runs in our family. But not too many other people that I have ever met really are interested. Seriously. Mental illness is still too ........ too distasteful for the average person who does not know anything about mental illnesses to talk about. At least that's been my experience. 
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