My parents have a hard time accepting that I have bipolar disorder. They treat it like its something shameful and have a kind of like a 'don't ask, don't tell' type of attitude towards it. They even ridiculed me from ever mentioning it to my sisters of my diagnosis and meds, and therefore my sisters stayed in the dark until recently.

But even my sisters aren't much help. One also has developed the hush-hush attitude, and the other considers me schizophrenic and tells me I should never have children or else I'll give my kids bipolar disorder. These attitudes don't help and kind of make it difficult in me accepting my disorder. I mean, I do accept it but its hard to be compassionate when my own family isn't.