I've been waiting a long time for the opportunity to go to a group meeting with other people with bipolar disorder. Sunday was my first. We shared what was going on with us and then a few "professional" bipolar patients kind of took over and talked about their problems the rest of the hour. I know it was just one meeting but I left kind of disappointed.

Although I'm firmly in the bipolar 1 camp my disorder is such that I can still function as a professional, a husband, and a father. While I should have gone to the hospital on a number of occasions, I toughed it out and that somehow makes me different from the people in my group who go to the hospital frequently and struggle for life's basic entities. I feel like a bipolar snob.