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Originally Posted by shezbut
In my experience, people are judgmental towards others (in general) on just about every illness. Depression, anxiety, victims of abuse, personality quirks....you name it! A portion of the general population looks down upon us due to lack of understanding and immaturity. They do the same thing with physical illnesses: diabetes, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, even people w/ missing fingers or toes! So, they put us all down. We're stupid...we're clumsy...we deserved it...etc. The uneducated and unsympathetic can be SO CRUEL!!
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Agreed. I have been DX'd with Bipolar also and you should hear the concept people have of that! It's pretty clear what the world thinks of people with disorders and mental illness. Just watch the tv, look at how people with people BP are portrayed as almost psychotic.