When I’m stable it doesn’t come up. I’m a pretty laid back straightforward kind of person. So when I have an episode it really shocks people and it’s not hidden, there’s no hiding it. Most friendships, relationships and work don’t recover from it and I move on. My family however has stood by me and I spared them most of the worse of it by having lived far away. Although they have had periods where they called hospitals, jails and cops looking for me. I’m in a stable place now and haven’t the energy to look for friends, of course covid makes it easy to isolate. I don’t make a big thing out of it, just go on living my life. I don’t feel any need to tell people I’m bipolar