For me, personally, I tend to tell people I consider to be my friends that I am bp pretty early on. Talking about it openly normalizes it and makes it a little less of an enormous deal to yourself and to others. I know it hurts when people you care about reject you based on stigmas...I won't try to tell you it won't or that it shouldn't. But if someone can't accept you for who you are and what you're going through, maybe they weren't the best person to have in your life in the first place? You need positive, supportive people that won't judge or upset you. Sometimes you have to cut out those poisonous people in your life and in my experience, telling someone about bp or other mental illness is the number one way to tell if they're worth your time. "Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." I hope that helps. Good luck! <3