Have you ever been treated "different...

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Registered: 08-03-2006
Have you ever been treated "different...
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Fri, 03-23-2007 - 3:32pm

Have you ever been treated "different" because you're bipolar?



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Registered: 04-07-2002
Fri, 03-23-2007 - 3:41pm

I have had several instances of being treated differently because of bipolar, some positive, some negative. My very hot-tempered father tried really hard to hold his temper around me when I was first dxed. I also was kept on a job after I had had too much absences both in reference to my health condition and also because I was good at the job (I did eventually lose the job, though.)

I also lost two jobs when it was discovered on both that I had a mental illness.

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Beth "Petrouchka"

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Registered: 08-03-2006
Fri, 03-23-2007 - 3:57pm
The only time I felt wierd was when someone was going on about how someone they disliked was "crazy and must be bipolar or something". The person was not aware of my diagnosis, so it was not an insult directed at me, but it did annoy me.


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Registered: 07-24-2003
Fri, 03-23-2007 - 5:38pm

This whole pregnancy has been an lesson it what it feels to be treated differently. My doctors are afraid to deal with me. My family doesn't know what to say or how to act. My dad is a particular problem, but that's probably because he's turned down proper treatment for his own problems for years and years, preferring to feel superior for his ability to "suck it up". My sister has been really cool though and DH is very supportive.

I find it trying because sometimes I don't know what to think about it myself, so seeing negative reactions in others can kind of set me off into the whole self-loathing thing.

Mary

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Registered: 09-01-2004
Sun, 03-25-2007 - 12:53am

Sadly, I and a friend have been seriously discrimated against by our medical doctor (same one).