I have bipolar disorder with a comorbid anxiety disorder.Stigma is extremely isolating. My experiences with bipolar have been a big part of my life (and sometimes the Only Part of my life, during those all-hands-on-deck periods).
It’s hard to feel like you’re not allowed to talk about it. In the aftermath of some of the hardest times in my life I felt like I spent a lot of time with my mouth shut, because when people would ask me what I had been up to or how I had been, all I had to talk about was bipolar and I felt like I couldn’t go there.
There’s this whole litany of reasons not to talk about it: you don’t want to make people uncomfortable, you don’t want to open yourself up to hearing each person’s dumb opinion about your own mental
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