The most disturbing parts of your post, to me, were the way the first doctor treated you and the fact that multiple people have sent you the blog post by My Angel of Repose as an example of someone else who deals with being bipolar.
The first bothered me a great deal, I suppose because it is so clearly ostracizing, judging and practically criminalizing with no basis other than a checked box. If I go into our pediatrician's office with a box checked for family history of cancer, nobody treats me like I'm somehow responsible for that, and if I happened to be the family member with cancer, I have no doubt I would be given a lot of support and encouragement, not suspicion and judgment. I guess I'm just saying that I think it's unfortunate that there is still such a stigma associated with mental illness, especially when it comes from the medical community.
And the second horrified me because of the sheer ignorance of it. I'm sure the author of the post didn't mean to suggest she suffers from actual bipolar disorder, but the fact that other people think her article is an accurate description of what being bipolar is like, well, that's just a little scary.
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Re: mental monday: a little change
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