I'm lucky. My parents are supportive - my dad is always worried about me. He was close to his cousin who was in Vietnam and his cousin never really recovered from it, taking his life a few years ago. So that's fresh in his mind.

My mom is slowly coming around. She has an undiagnosed mental illness and struggles with her own demons. But she's not unsupportive, more neutral right now. She doesn't engage me in much BP conversation and simply ignores most of what I say if it remotely pertains to BP. She'd rather me be "normal" because all of her friends children are normal (according to all the glorious stories she tells me about them). Sunshine, lollipops.........

My sisters are also very supportive and always ask me what I'm doing with my mountain climbing (my new thing). My brothers in law are more on the "man up" side but they generally seem indifferent to it all. I have one friend who is very supportive but he's BPD so that always "helps" the understanding.