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Originally Posted by RomanJames2014
I know exactly how you feel.
My mom throws the term "bipolar" around when saying that people are crazy or had. It hurts everytime.
I told my mom a week after I had been diagnosed and she is in denial. Everyone thinks that I am lying or discussing it for my own attention when it was a doctor that told me.
My therapist is also not on bourd. He doesn't really show interest in it.
I always say that coming out bipolar was much harder than coming out gay because of the stigma and ignorance on the topic.
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Sorry to hear that.
My parents are the same about calling bipolar people "crazy" or calling crazy people "bipolar".
My sister's ex-friend's mother is BP, and I would say her case is pretty severe based on what I've been told. (She goes to IP a lot because her medications just don't work.) My parents always make fun of her and call her "a sad joke", even though it's not her fault. They always told my sister that they didn't want her going to "the psycho lady's house".
I think my parents would be in denial if I told them. They'd probably compare me to that lady and say "you're nothing like her". OR they'd think I'm "batsh*t crazy".