I continue to think about this and developed this insight: I can be "well" as long as my pain is neat, marketable, palatable, or invisible.
And that's true, to me anyway. I hid the worst, so far, of my depression from my family and they went on as if everything was just fine. It's all about optics - keep it hidden and everything's good.
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* Dx: Bipolar II (finally, after years at Bipolar NOS)
* Rx: minimal dose of Lamictal
My avatar picture is a photo of the Whirlpool Galaxy I took in April 2023. I dedicated this photo to my sister who passed away in July 2016.
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