LAST POST HERE - MOVING TO NEW SPACE!!!
Hey, y'all --
Just wanted to remind you that this is going to be my last post here - the next post will be at my new space at: www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarsurvivorblog
I hope everyone will follow me over there!
I think you'll like it. It's already up, and it looks a little bit different, but it'll be easier to post comments there, and easier to read. Also, all my old posts will follow over, too, so you can still read on any topic you want, all the way back to 2005!
So, c'mon down to: www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarsurvivorblog and join me on Thursday!!!
Ok, so on to today's topic.
Somebody was talking to me about friendship and bipolar disorder. She was saying how hard it was to have or keep a friend if you have the disorder.
At first I got real defensive, thinking that wasn't true, but then I started agreeing with her. I have found it to be true, for the most part, in my life.
I have one friend, but we have been friends since 10th grade (over 35 yrs ago). Then I have another friend, who is like my sister, but she only understands me because she also has a mental disorder. Neither one lives where I do.
Where I live, I have absolutely no one but my husband, and he is my best friend. I'm very lucky, and I count my blessings every day. Because, as most of you know, he also has bipolar disorder, so he understands what it's like to live with "the dragon."
We don't have any friends, tho. Nobody else we can go out with, just for dinner or whatever.
No one else seems to "get" us. And we're not even that weird! (just sorta)
It's a good thing we're best friends, because we have to hang around each other alot, and we are each other's best entertainment.
But I was thinking about all of you, wondering if you've run into the same thing. Do people treat you different when they find out that you have bipolar disorder?
Have you been able to find and make friends? Have you been able to keep friends?
Or does it seem to not matter to other people in your case?
I'd really like some feedback on this one.
Wishing you peace and stability,
Remember God loves you and so do I,
Michele
ps. See you next post at: www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarsurvivorblog
posted by Michele @ 3:31 PM
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I have amazingly lucky to have a great friend, other than my husband and family. She was the one who took me to my first appointment, when I got diagnosed. She has always been supportive of me, and tells me when she notices any sort of down turn. She sort of helps analyze my moods.
I have tried to be very candid and open with people about this disorder. I don't hide it or anything. In fact, because I talk about it, one lady at church felt she had some similar symptoms and got herself checked out. Now she feels a whole lot better and we have even talked about bipolar and pregnancy - she didn't think you could while on medication! Lots of people don't understand it, and I don't want to be treated like I am made of porcelain, because I'm not, so I eplain what it means and how I am affected. Just in normal everyday conversation.
So far it seems to be working, this casual approach to it. I am not asking for attention or special treatment. Just understanding. And everyone I have talked to has been wonderful! I think I tend to be the kind of person that likes a couple good friends, rather than lots of casual friends, and I have always made friends easily, being very outgoing. I feel very lucky, and know that this isn't always the situation for some...
I have a hard time keeping friends...I usually don't tell anyone that I'm bipolar and when I do they say "but you seem so normal" ha! I seem so "normal" bc when i'm at my worst i dont go around ppl or call friends bc im ashamed. i know i seem like a horrible friend bc i blow ppl off or i say im going to show up and never do. im just scared to leave my house sometimes bc i dont want my friends to see me like this. i dunno i find it best to stay alone. i'm tired of always having to explain what im going through.
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