The gist of it was that he didn't want to admit to having bipolar so he told people he had a physical illness to excuse his behavior. Cause yeah you tell people you can't get out of bed because your bipolar they're gonna say you lazy boy you can you tell them you can't get out of bed cause you got cancer in the brain people will give you leeway. In part his lying about this might increase the stigma but he did it because the stigma existed already. It was an extremely bad decisions on his part.