My friends figured it out before I did; they were the ones who convinced me to go talk to someone. I had to tell my parents because at the time they were the ones whose insurance plan I was using. My dad didn't believe me and my mom was convinced that I [religion] just wasn't going to church enough. [/religion] They're just now coming around.
Obviously my boyfriend knows, since we live together...
I tend to be fairly selective who I tell. My last employer used it as an excuse to write me up several times (she actually wrote me up for a panic attack) because, as she told me to my face, she didn't feel I had any business working with children. Ever since then I've been wary about it.
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dx: bipolar I - lamictal 150mg/risperdal 3mg/klonopin .5mg
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, that is the soul of genius."
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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