[astone131]

I was talking to my sister in law tonight and was telling her that I am in another manic episode. And she pipes up and said she is BP too but it doesnt effect her life. I have been knowing I am BP for 16 years and there isnt a day that goes by that it doesnt effect my life somehow. So why would she say she has it. Im not stupid I know how it works. Does she think I would just over look that fact?

[kindachaotic]

Ask her which meds she takes to keep it from "affecting her life"...
I sure would like to know.

[astone131]

she said she doesnt take meds she controls it

[Flooded]

She's full of ****. Seriously full of ****. She gives REAL sufferers a bad name because she's telling you and everyone else for attention.

I wouldn't mention it again and if she does, ask her if she got her dx out of a cereal box

[BlackPup]

GRRRRRRRRRR..... Makes me soooo angry too....
Love the cereal box dx comment!!!!!

[Martek]

Gotta love when someone trivializes a very serious issue. I bet she ends up in the ER for a hangnail

[SunAngel]

OMFG, I know exactly what you mean. My sister always says to me that everybody has some bipolar in them. ********!!!

I don't call her anymore when I am down or manic because she gives the worst advice, like saying, "Look at everything you have in your life." True, but when I am in an episode, I cannot look at those things.

I am going to find an article that says what to say to a depressed person, and what not to say.

I read it somewhere and she broke every single one of them.

[SunAngel]

Here's the link of what to say to a depressed person and what not to say to a depressed person:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0...le=Im_Here_For

[AbeIsAbe]

Bipolar must be the next "cool" thing. Like when cutting was made cool in high school. Or when being bisexual became cool.

People are much too quick to diagnose themselves these days...it can be quite frustrating to those who actually HAVE the diagnosis. Perhaps if she understood the severity of Bipolar Disorder, she wouldn't be so quick to trivialize it?

[widgets]

I think, when someone asks me what Bipolar is, i find it so difficult to explain it to them.
For instance My friend Jodie and me had this conversation.
Jodie "So what is Bipolar."
Me "It where you have severe moodswings."
Jodie "So its not like depression?"
Me "Yes i suffer very bad depression, just not all the time."
Jodie "so its better than having depression?"
Me "No, because the other side is you go so mental (this is how i see it) that you dont know whats happening, you think you're great and everything is great."
Jodie "Well everyone goes through moodswings, i think kerri has that, one minutes she is fine the next she is not."
Me "That is just moodswings, kerri is normal, then every now and then she gets really angry for about 6 hours, and that is for a reason she just cant deal with it well."
Jodie "But sometimes she talks a lot and sometimes she is really quiet."
Me "She's quiet all the time, except when she is really drunk, you never get a time where you cant get a word in edgeways and she is talking about the price of oranges with the supermarket checkout lady."
Jodie "I dont get it."
Me "Dont worry."

Without living Bipolar and completely researching it, its actually impossible to understand.
No matter how many times i read it before diagnosis, i would talk myself in and out and in and out of believing if i did have it before.
All they get told is that it is moodswings, which everyone has, but it doesnt affect their lives, so they never get to the point of needing to get help or researching it.
I used to think i was an insomniac because i didnt sleep much, i didnt realise that insomniac would sleep at ALL.
These people are sometimes ignorant, if they are claiming they have it, when we know they clearly dont, therefore obviously dont even know what it is.
But some are just innocent as they have never HAD to know what it was so therefore shouldnt really be expected to use the word wisely.

[widgets]

Originally Posted by AbeIsAbe

Bipolar must be the next "cool" thing. Like when cutting was made cool in high school. Or when being bisexual became cool.

I consider myself bisexual but cant bring myself to say that word because its not really a real term its more of an old fad. Just makes me feel like i'm trying to be radical, when really its normal.