It is so hard to get past misconceptions/stigma and I get tired of trying to educate people. Tell them you have ADHD and they shrug it off. Tell them you are depressed and they offer compassionate reassurance that things will get better. Tell them you have bipolar disorder and they hide the knives. So I tend to be vague and try to figure out whether they really want to know and if they will really understand. Family can be bad about telling you that your diagnosis is wrong. Their hearts may be in the right place; they wish you didn't have it. But they can't talk you into not having it.
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|Up and down
|And in the end it's only round and round
|Pink Floyd - Us and Them
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|bipolar II, substance use disorder, ADD
|lamictal, straterra
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