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Originally Posted by Ocean Swimmer
My family knows and my close friends. Others I don't tell.
One thing about labels that bothers me, is the guidelines for my dbsa support group make us introduce ourselves and say our diagnosis and for how long. It bothers me every week to say it outloud.
Maybe that's how alcoholics feel at AA meetings.
Even though everyone in my support group struggles with bipolar and even other disorders, it still upsets me to say it outloud
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I've yet to go to my local dbsa. I didn't even know about it until a few months ago. So I can't say for sure how I would feel to say that I am bipolar to a group of my kind. I've never had a problem with it with friends and families and even employers. But with AA, it's hard at first to say you're an alcohol, or your sobriety date, but I find it a powerful statement to make on a regular basis. It's step one, and none of the other steps work without step one. But that's 12 step groups.