This is not an illness that can just be swept under the rug like it isn't real. I do have episodes and don't want to feel like I am being discarded because I am flawed in some way due to the disorder. I am not flawed and want people to know that I am still the same person that I always have been. Also, just because I have an episode, doesn't mean that I am crazy. I entrusted my mother with my dx, but she doesn't want to know anything about the illness.