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Originally Posted by AnxietyGirl916
I have a facebook/instagram friend that posed a pic of her "mood changing" nail polish. Her comment, as her polish was 2 different shade of blue today was, "Mood changing nails. Does this mean I'm bipolar today?!"
Maybe I'm just being sensitive because I'm in a crappy mood, but I don't find that funny at all. Of course, all her friends are LOLing about it, but I just want to tell her to STFU as she has NO IDEA what it's like to be bipolar. People think making jokes about MI is a way of de-stigmatizing it, but to me it's just offensive.
Thoughts?
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If this is a close friend, perhaps a private message just explaining how that reference is offensive to someone who actually lives with the disorder. Probably wouldn't be mean about it, just sort of educational. I don't think responding in anger accomplishes anything except reinforcing her mistaken ideas about bipolar disorder.