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
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- 4.30.08 / 4pm
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- Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Discrimination, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Mental Health Discrimination, Mental Health Prejudice
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