Been thinking about how I've been recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I've got other diagnoses, but I guess the bipolar replaces the "severe recurring major depressive disorder" which has been my main dx for many years now. I'm worried if I tell someone I have bipolar, they will think i just have mood swings and that i don't have such severe depression as people with MDD have. Well i do. I have had severe depression,... and hypomania and mixed episode now. I don't know why I even care about what they think. Maybe I want others to know what I've gone through, and how hard it was. Why do i even care though? I need to stop caring about it. People are going to be ignorant anyway. Depression that comes with bp can be very severe and debilitating. i wish bipolar was taken more seriously and not just something people think troubled adolescents and brittany spears gets diagnosed with... society is stupid

sorry was just ranting