My opinion isn't yours, but now I feel like this. Told two different friends, I never seen them since. I do not tell anyone in public; friends or not. I read on the net most people just do not understand, and if they feel that way, they tend to turn the other way. Sorry I can't recall name of article I read on the net. To this day, it said, there is a stigma about any mental illness. Also people mentally ill, as I am, have enough to deal with as it is. Guess you could search what general public think about mental illness. My mom is gone years ago before I found out I was BP but I would guess she would not receive the news very well. Mon was upper class life style and there can be no blemish on her family. But I know my mom witnessed some of my crazy acts but I can't say for sure what she believed to be wrong with me. I was spoiled through out my life which isn't the right way.