[rollacoasta]

I had over a week of solid 5's on my mood scale, things were going so well.

It all came crashing down when a family member decides she would rather tell me how she thinks I should feel in relation to an old incident with somebody.

Why do my own feelings seem invalid to my family?

And then when I explain how I feel, they blame my irritability on the Bipolar!

Are we not allowed to have normal human emotions like anger, without it getting blamed on Bipolar?

Oh sorry you're feeling like that Jared, must be the illness huh? Rack off!!

Can anybody relate?

[pawn78]

Wether it is the illness or not, it is still your feelings. You are still you. So if your family is blaming your reactions on your illness, then they don't want to accept your feelings as valid. Also, they don't to take responsibility for their own volatile behavior towards you.

So, your family needs to recognize this and stop blaming you for reacting to their annoying remarks.
Or, if they don't change, maybe you could just ignore them, realizing they are just ignorant.

We all deal with this to some extent.

[rollacoasta]

True aye, why is when you go to let a family member in... You know, in just a bit because you start to trust them, then all of a sudden its the whole 'oh no, you just need to look at it like this, Jared...'

It's really frustrating when you talk about your feelings to someone close to you and they don't just allow you to feel something aye?

They do need to recognize and accept my feelings pawn, very true. I would flick the person away from me straight away if that person was not my mother. Ya know?