I get this all the time too! "Why don't you get up and ( do this thing or that)? "You just don't WANT to do anything!" "You just WANT to be miserable!" And all these things they say just reinforce my resistance to get up because now I feel even worse about myself than I did before, as if that were even possible! People's lack of understanding about bipolar is just intolerable to me anyway! I can't stand how people think that this is a CHOSEN LIFESTYLE! As if we take great pleasure in making ourselves and those around us miserable! If mental illness were a physical handicap, people would go out of there way to make things more accessible, convenient and comfortable for us! But since they can't SEE it, they readily and easily dismiss it as something we could effortlessly change. Those who don't understand only compound an already complicated situation!