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Originally Posted by Secretum
Genetic, I am a premed student. If I tell the admissions committees at the med schools that I am going to apply to that I am bipolar, I will be immediately thrown in the reject pile. So I think that stigma is sadly alive and well among the well-educated.
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Yes, and I was thrown out of one of the most educated places in this country for it. The educated world is only
marginally less stigmatizing of this illness; the rest is wistful thinking.