Moonbeam,
Yes living with BP is not easy. Judge Mathis is on TV to do what? Make lots of money, that's all he cares around. Not only that the guy is probably not educated about mental health issues to begin with. Yes. he was wrong! Don't let something or someone on TV make you feel like you are a loser just because you have BP. People are going to be people and they are going to say ignorant things. People are going to say what they want to and believe what they want no matter how much education is avaliable to them. Don't let someone particualarly on TV make you feel so bad. Shake him off. Find something else to when things on TV start bugging you. One of the things I have learned in the last five years is that I do not have to subject myself to the ignorance of others. I can turn and walk away. The TV, well I can change the station or turn it off and go read a book. NObody has the ability to make ME feel anyway...if someone does or says something to me I can choose what I do with that. I don't have to accept the negatives. I can hold my head up and politely ignore all the negative crap and go on about my business with my head up so I don't live in the mirky muck of depression and anxiety...I am preaching to myself at this point since I just had my second anxiety attack in two days! Hang there and don't let someone you cause you to feel negative things like that.
HairlessPoleCat AKA Teresa