I feel really alienated at times. Especially when people ask how I'm doing. Until the recent addition of wellbutrin my answer was never just "good," and I feel like people don't want to hear that things are anything but good or else things get uncomfortable. There's also the whole macho male stigma that says I should just be stronger and try harder and not blame my problems on mental illness. I have a couple bipolar friends who get it, but most people just don't understand the inner turmoil that rages. Hell, I don't understand it much of the time, how could someone else get it?