Bipolar People suck (apparently) !
Well here’s a helpful, intelligent, constructive and informed comment I received today:
“Quite frankly. I’m so sick of bipolar crap. Take your meds. Get help and quit ruining the life of people around you. You’re ill. Get help. Don’t be lazy and cruel. Bipolars suck!”
Just goes to show that I need to run a blog like this……
If he/she had bothered to read about me, he/she would have known that:
- I do take medication and always will, never have once come off them
- I already know I’m ill which is why I’m writing a blog about it all
- I’ve already had and continue to have help: 3 years of CBT and therapy, Psychiatric help and healers. Oh and fantastic family, a supportive partner and great friends. Any more help that I’ve missed out on?
- Lazy? That’s an interesting one. So Lazy that I became an Army officer, rowed for my college, trekked across Canada’s Yukon, raced sailing boats for the Army and have my Royal Yachting Qualifications, qualified as a Mountain Expedition Leader, can run for an hour and a half at a time, exercise regularly, can water ski competently. Anything else I should be doing? Oh, I also write articles which are published, speak at conferences, study Law.
- Or are you talking about “lazy” when I was suffering from depression and found it hard to get out of bed in the mornings, felt drained and fatigued all day, could hardly move, found it difficult to motivate myself. Do you mean that kind of lazy?
- Or so lazy that I set up this blog and campaign against senseless discrimination and prejudice?
- Cruel - wonder what he means by that? I don’t hit my children, nor do I sexually abuse them, nor do I neglect them, nor do I psychologically torment them. Those are the only ways I think I could be “cruel”. Oh and last time I looked, the dog was still alive and my family and friends still like me. Cruel to whom?
- Bipolar sucks! Sure does. Lucky for you you don’t have it, or if you do, then please don’t assume the things you’ve assumed and certainly don’t tar all 750,000 of us with the phrase “Bipolar Sucks”. Just be grateful that you don’t have to live with the illness that I have to live with.
By the way, if anyone wants to comment to this, please do so - any debate is good debate!
The author of this intelligent and insightful comment, aptly naming itself ‘Sickossick’ also chose to leave a ‘ghost’ email address, no real surprise there really: sickossick@yahoo.com
And for what it’s worth, here is the IP details the comment was logged under:
(IP: 75.146.33.2 , 75-146-33-2-Minnesota.hfc.comcastbusiness.net)
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=75.146.33.2
All the bipolar people i know, including my sister, cousin and daughter say they were abused and neglected as children even though that is far from the truth. It gets them attention and sympathy.
i think this pathetic excuse for a totally ignorant human being should try living a day or even a week with this mental illness, i developed a form of Bipola disorder,and it affects alot of things i am able to do in life !! its disrespectful people like that who cause a massive stigma towards mental illness!!
how dare him, i’ve been googling about bipolar disorder for about an hour now because i have discovered that my girlfriend has it =(. he has no right to say that bipolar people suck, my girlfriend was scarred as a child from neglective and abusive parents, if he thinks she sucks because someone beat her constantly then he is a horrible person and i wish he could realize the seriousity of this disorder, if anyone has any helpful sources of information please let me know. (if you wish to contact me by email it’s randomdemise@hotmail.com) I’m going to help her somehow if it’s the last thing I do
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Suzy Johnston developed the initial symptoms of depression when she was 17. The condition developed into bipolar affective disorder while she was a student. She then had 6 hospital admissions and learnt to manage her condition. She wrote about developing her condition and her journey of recovery in ‘The Naked Bird Watcher’ and her mother then wrote her story of being her mother dealing with the condition in ‘To Walk on Eggshells’.
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Suzy is a musician and has written/composed about living with self-harm, depression, psychosis and recovery with ‘Bad Alice’ and released a CD ‘Walk in my Shoes’
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I was diagnosed with bi polar about 2 months ago and im still trying to get used to it myself. It shocks and sadens me that there are so many narrow minded pathetic people out there who can not educate themselves when it comes to mental illness. I think I speak for the majority of sufferers when I say it is empathy we need not sympathy.
When you consider that 1 in 4 people in the UK will suffer from a mental illness in their lifetime igonorance is not bliss! Also their are so many significant people in history who have suffered from Bipolar e.g Winston Churchill. I agree Bipolar at times can be deeply painful but with the right help can be managed and people can lead a full and meaningful life.
I cannot believe that some lumox would post that! I was diagnosed 11 years ago, at the age of 43. I ran a business employed people and was a productive contributing member of society. I at one point has three jobs, one full time, the other to quite nearly. No one said I was lazy then. I think most bi polars have forgotten more than this jerk will ever know.
What an irresponsible post. This person has obviously had to deal w/ someone’s who has B.P. and perhaps hasn’t yet found the road to recovery. It takes time to learn how to cope and treatment that works specifically for one, does not work for the other. There are millions of dollars being spent to try to find medical solutions, and the person you are referring to, may not have found the right meds, which in turn could be contributing to the person’s poor decision making… That being said… you have to decide whether you want to be part of the solution or part of the problem…I’m sorry you’ve obviously been making poor decisions…what’s your excuse?
So for the cry baby whiner who has decided that “bipolar people”suck” without ever even having experienced it first-hand…just goes to show your weakness and be thankful you didn’t get it because YOU certainly would have ended up one of the BP people who is a pain in the ass to everyone around you, just like you are now.
You’ve chosen ignorance and judgement, rather than education, tolerance & compassion….Oh yeah a person as bleak, angry and hopeless as you are, would end up a BP suicide statistic, because your small supposedly “normal” brain can’t even see the light at the end of the tunnel.
meanwhile the 750,000 BP people who “suck” are looking for solutions and the light, every single day…
Nobody chooses this!!!!!!!!!!
I am continually amazed at the ignorance of the public to this illness. For years I have taken my children to the same doctor. He is awesome. My children are ADHD with a bipolar mother. The chances that they will ease into bipolar is high. My doctor decided to change his office manager just in the last three months. The last time I went to see my doctor he gave me a three month supply of my medication to refill. I had a balance on two “no shows” that I forgot to pay. When I went last week to see my doctor, the office manager wanted all of the money right then or I could not see the doctor. I had been making small payments each month because I was injured at work and not making as much. Now we are not talking about a huge amount. She considered my account in default because she saw a break in payments for three months. My doctor was just trying to help me out by giving me refills so I didn’t have to pay the copay every month, but it just made my situation worse. I got upset at the lady when she wanted the money payed before seeing the doctor. I did not plan to pay that much and didn’t have it in the account that day. I got upset and raised my voice. I even pushed the papers I had just filled out back at her and left. I was so frustrated. My doctor had just assured me months ago that he knew I would pay the balance when I could. When I had enough money to pay the balance I made a new appointment. The office manager called me back and informed me that my children and I were not to come back to this office. I am heart broken. I don’t think my doctor even know. I was rude and bipolar. They knew I was. I have not had a problem with any staff member until this new manager. I know that bipolar sucks. I take my medication every day and still have set backs. I have been on a journey for knowledge and peace. When I found this doctor I felt like he understood us. He did. He did. Now that his practice is doing better he can pick and choose. Being bipolar is not a choice but a fact. This is our journey. No one knows how deeply painful it is. I won’t even ask for compassion and tolerance. Humanity sucks…
The person who commented about how “bipolar people suck” has been overly saturated about what it is to be undedicated and bipolar. And in that case we do sometimes. But it is the wise person who can point the finger at another and see three fingers pointing back.
I can’t really post anything to debate about because I totally agree with you…
What a completely Neanderthal comment! And great response.