Most friends and family, and a few people at work know about my bipolar. I used to worry about people knowing, but I don't really care anymore. Hopefully people knowing me, and that i have that diagnosis, can start to bring down the stigma. I do a little teaching for a nursing school, in the mental health section of their training, but that's as an experienced nurse, not as a patient. I've considered telling students to reduce stigma, but I haven't. I don't tell patients ever, that would be a boundary problem.