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Originally Posted by A Red Panda
*raises hand* I'm fully functional and responsible! In fact, I'm one of the most responsible people I know  If someone was to call me incompetent, I'd be deeply hurt and likely cut off all contact with them for having so much prejudice - and clearly they didn't know me one iota!
Your family and that one doctor are indeed quacks Those of us with bipolar and other diagnoses are not quacks  Simply definition to keep in mind, haha! |
You know what, I think it's pretty ironic that "we are the crazy ones". I've met a lot of really interesting people on this journey. They fall across the spectrum in terms of their mental health. Some of them, frankly, scared me. There was one guy in the day hospital program who liked to talk a lot about guns and the fact that they had to terminate him from his job (it was a really lucrative blue collar automative job) because of implied threats to supervisors. One day, he and the other two guys in the program at that time I were in the "relaxation room" prior to the waste of time "relaxation therapy" session, and he whipped out his cell phone and played a sound bite - bang bang bang - it was gunshots he had recorded. Scared the three of us, and I went to the program nurse after and said "I know you can't discuss other patients with me because of HIPPA, but I want you to know that X is doing and saying ...." It was scary. Worse case scenario.
Be back soon with the opposite examples.