Would you choose to not have bipolar?

Of course I would choose not to have bipolar.

I'd definitely have to pass on bipolar if given the choice, its given so little and taken so much. I'm not sure what things would look like without it, but I'd certainly roll those dice.

Right now I really don’t know.

Great question. I think the life I have now I would rather not have bipolar. I wish I could be without it. I rarely get the euphoric moments and when I did, I still had bad outcomes (possibly just wrong place wrong time on one of those). But considering I'm mostly low or dysphoric (depressed or high with dysphoria), I'd rather not have it. But it is a good question. I do wonder how much I'd be different...i think I'd like to be without anxiety too and the physical problems too like someone else said.

I honestly don't know for sure. I've lost a lot to this disease---a career, a house and lifestyle I loved, and a good deal of my dignity. OTOH, it makes me creative and funny and quirky, and I've made a lot of friends I'd probably never have met if it weren't for the bipolar. Sometimes I even love feeling things so intensely, because it makes me feel alive. But I also wonder sometimes what it would be like to be a "normal" person who never goes through depression or anxiety or mania. I have this one friend who loves me dearly but cannot comprehend for the life of her what depression is. She asks me sometimes what it's like to feel all the feelings so vividly. I try to tell her as best I can, but she doesn't get it. By the same token, I don't know what it is to NOT have bipolar.

Can I get a hell yes? I'd be done with it in a heartbeat. No way any of it is worth the soul crushing depression that is my baseline.

would I choose not to have it?

well, no one asked for any of this stuff, right?. it just happened

I think it would be nice to be without any type of MI, but then at the same time I've lived with mental health problems for over 20 years. what the **** would I do without them

I wouldn't say they've made me who I am, but you plan your life around them, or something.

plus I have physical stuff like fibro. my body's ****ed

If I could relive my life, and choose my illnesses, I would scrap all mental disorders as well as a host of physical disorders.

If I am — and I am — reduced to this solitary existence because of illnesses, I would rather be dumb and happy and part of the crowd.

I would choose to be tall and handsome, rich and famous, have the constant adoration of the world. A family of beautiful babies that never grow old and possess high moral character.
But who I'm I to opine. I'm not well, they say.

In a heartbeat. To not have to navigate, not the bumps, but the boulders along the road. I think that without BP and the intense and pervasive anxiety I suffer from, I'd be a lot further ahead in life. Far happier and more fulfilled. And I mean outside of episodes, just in my daily life.

I want bumps, not boulders.

Yes!! You said it.

I would choose not to have it. It has taken everything from me. I'm left with this shell of a person. I've grown up with this disorder, and now I don't even know who I really am.

Preach!! Me either...