Tonight I went with my bro and his ex, we'll call her Jill, to her brothers house for thanksgiving after party. I don't drink so I was the DD. Let me just say that my brothers ex is also bipolar which makes this even more stupid. So we're all sitting around having adult convo and the subject of my brothers ex wife came up and how she was bipolar (yea you may wonder why my bro surrounds himself with so many bipolar chicks. Poor guy lol). Well Jill, a rather mouthy drunk, yells "no she was REALLY bipolar! She was on seroquel!!!" I just shook my head. How can a fellow bipolar be so damn ignorant?! I didn't say anything because most of what this girl says is obnoxious and the fact that she was drunk made it that much worse. I just shot her a look like "wtf!?" And I've been on and off seroquel for years. If there weren't strangers around I would of said something but I wasn't comfortable adding my dirty laundry in front of them.

Also, I had to go to my Gyno the other day because whenever I get off of birth control, my periods stop. So I'm telling him my med list and his eyebrows go up and ask if I'm bipolar. I said yes. He handed me a sheet to go get my blood drawn and says "now come back next week when the results are in so we can see how bad these meds messed you up". And waved his hand in a motion like telling me to get lost. I'm a medical assistant and I actually find that drs other than pdocs even treat us different. That's why I hate telling them what meds I'm on. Because I know they are going to treat me different. No I did not say ALL docs do this. But they're out there!

Dx: BP2, PTSD, bulimia/anorexia
Risperdal 4mg
Trileptal 300mgs
Buspar 45mgs
Ativan 1mg PRN
Vyvance 70mgs PRN