I LOVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES! ACreative1onder "hit the nail on the head" so to speak, with "Some people don't regard depression or Bipolar as a real illness." Unfortunately, I have a couple of half-siblings who think my BP1 is only a contrived "excuse" for my moments of insanity. Why worry about those mentally-challenged fools in the world? Rather, worry about those who want to know why you're so "different", but are afraid to ask.

As a Jew, we are abundantly aware that there many of those who deny that the Holocaust ever really actually occurred - in spite of the mountains of material evidence to support our claims to that dark chapter in our history. We waste no time trying to convince those who refuse to listen to reason and material evidence. It would be like explaining that the world is round to a red squirrel: a waste of time and energy.

So too, this is true of mental illness. There's mountains of scientific evidence to support that it does in fact exist - but also what it looks like with respect to the diverse manifest varieties. Hell - even the federal and state laws ALL RECOGNIZE mental illness.

Still, there are those brain-dead individuals that attempt to aggravate and annoy us with their stupidity. Don't bother with them.