I tell people on a " need to know" basis. My closest friends know. My casual friends do not know. I agree that if you're going to be in my life you should know these things about me. Obviously my husband knows. I did not tell my mother in law because I wasn't sure how she would take it and I thought my husband would prefer it that way and he ended up bringing it up to her recently by accident, so now she knows.

I've learned to be careful with who you tell - my one good friend, who I've known forever, will tell others, "Oh Jadedmoonbeam does very well in life while being bipolar"...so now people who I didn't want to know, do know. I know she doesn't do this to be mean....she's just kind of got a big mouth.