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I have done the same, and I won't deny it, though I try not to. My pdoc would rather know that I am skipping meds and having severe symptoms than be notified that I am in the hospital and have not seen it coming. Although, I still hide minor symptoms from my friends and family as I don't want our relationships to be about my bipolar. And even why I do describe the symptoms, I don't choose to attribute them to the bipolar. Everyone has bad day and difficulty sleeping at times. If they ask about the bipolar, I won't lie, but I won't always bring it up.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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