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Old Apr 27, 2012, 03:38 PM
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I'd read it! I will say, though, that while you'll probably want to write under a pen name, there's nothing wrong with telling your own story. That personalizes it for the reader and makes them think, "Oh cool, this person really knows what s/he's talking about." IOW, speaking in the first person increases your credibility and shows others how to succeed despite---or even because of---the disorder.

I'm a writer as well as a nurse, and I have a blog on another website called "The Best Is Yet To Be" where I recently 'came out' as bipolar. I still can't believe how supportive the vast majority of responses have been, and how many of us there are out there---even many like me, who occupy positions of responsibility and authority. Not one person I've talked to about this disorder has looked at me funny or turned their back on me, which gives me a lot of hope that the stigma is finally beginning to go away.

Which it won't if we don't talk about it. We ought to be able to say "I have bipolar disorder" as easily as we say "I have diabetes" or "I have chronic low back pain"; there should be no shame or guilt associated with it. We didn't ask for it; why should we have to treat it like a dirty secret?
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