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Posted by ramsea on March 30, 2004, at 7:49:26

In reply to Re: Bi-Polar Popularity ! » linkadge, posted by PoohBear on March 29, 2004, at 11:43:34

My experience is the opposite of what I have been reading in this thread. First, it is still considered by the World Health Organization to be widely underdiagnosed.

2, I am a Bipolar 1 of many tears standing and have also worked in mental health. I have only ever seen people hide the fact of their diagnosis--never flaunt it. Though sometimes disturbed hypomania might lead a few to yell about it. In support groups (like this) people often feel comfortable admitting their diagnosis and having a good chinwag about bipolar.

But of course as someone else already said, go to a mental health site and join the group, but expect to meet bipolars there. For one thing, we bipolars tend to be very verbal. That's even documented---there's more of us who are "writers" than in any other group.

There's probably a greater chance of meeting us because we tend to be the sort of people who reach out to others, even when we're ill. So if a person hangs out with writers, as on the computer, and other creative-type activities (or high achieving people) there's a better than average chance of finding yourself neck to neck (how unpleasant sounding) with someone "claiming" to be "bipolar".

I agree that it's weird to call someone bipolar due to an AD making them anxious, suicidal, or whatever. There should be procedure in place--a timed thing so it's possible to see if bipolarity is really the issue before adding this dx.

I personally know some bipolar-evident people who refuse help or dx. This is more common. I guess there will always be some people who ***want***an illness and will leap to be called bipolar. But really, I tell almost no one. Most of us aren't proud and delighted to have a disorder that makes the majority of people think we're a lunatic.

I have no doubt some people who don't have cancer say that they do, or they fake-out others with all kinds of bogus health problems. Don't see why bipolar should be different, but probably the mass of us are sadly, bipolar, and our quality of life has been damaged because of it. Not something any well person would want. Just my thoughts. Maybe the world is full of fakers. I hope not. Peace.


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