Welcome to the forums, desolate!

This is a pet peeve of mine for sure too. I've only told a few people, and the one that really got to me was, "Oh, so what...Everybody's bipolar!" Um...no. Most definitely not. I've since thought of how I wish I'd responded, but was too taken aback at the time. Thing is, he's a super nice guy, and it just hurt to have my pain so utterly invalidated by someone I braved up to tell. Another one declared that I "couldn't" be bipolar because he'd never "seen" me suicidal. One barely knows where to begin with that one...

I know that people speak from ignorance, but still...

And the way psychiatric terms are thrown around as casual ignorant vocabulary...Argh!