hellllllo all :) question

[meh]

I'm so happy to have found a Christian web-site with a forum like this.

I am wondering if anyone else has the problem of people not taking you so seriously when they find out you have bipolar? I've noticed that even online people may think I'm smart or nice or whatever, but they find out I'm bipolar and suddenly if I'm having a bad day I'm "crazy." If I have an opinion they don't like I'm "crazy."

I'm really open about having this disease, because I don't think I need to be ashamed. But I've also noticed as word spreads I'm getting less business. (I'm a free-lance paralegal).

I just wondered if others deal with this or can relate.

God Bless,
Mary

 

[goldenviolet]

yes, some people who don't understand us, or who have had sour exsperiances with another bipolar.

welcome to CF!!

if you run across frustrations, feel free to come post that you need encouragment and prayer .

 

[wonderwaleye]

Dear Meh

I feel the same way about me being bipolar. But there are times that a little discretion be used.



Not everyone needs to know your bipolar. My certified public accountant is bipolar and having a very difficult time with it. Meds just don't do him well. I haven't stopped using him but I get a little irritated when his work product is coming out slow. But I understand because I am bipolar. Others would not trust their work to a bipolar.




I'm a retired private investigator. Our work has to be held to high standards or someone else's life could be on the line.



If you where a stranger and knew very little about mental illness, would you like to retain me if I told you I suffer from mental illness?




MENTAL ILLNESS CARRIES WITH IT A STIGMA NO MATTER IF IT IS CORRECT OR NOT.



JUST ALWAYS REMEMBER:



XEven though you can't see Him, GOD is there!O
( click on the X and move to the O ) ( then feel who is around you )

 

[meh]

Dear Meh

I feel the same way about me being bipolar. But there are times that a little discretion be used.



Not everyone needs to know your bipolar. My certified public accountant is bipolar and having a very difficult time with it. Meds just don't do him well. I haven't stopped using him but I get a little irritated when his work product is coming out slow. But I understand because I am bipolar. Others would not trust their work to a bipolar.




I'm a retired private investigator. Our work has to be held to high standards or someone else's life could be on the line.



If you where a stranger and knew very little about mental illness, would you like to retain me if I told you I suffer from mental illness?




MENTAL ILLNESS CARRIES WITH IT A STIGMA NO MATTER IF IT IS CORRECT OR NOT.



JUST ALWAYS REMEMBER:



XEven though you can't see Him, GOD is there!O
( click on the X and move to the O ) ( then feel who is around you )

It's not like I put it on the business card I was dating a lawyer. He told the others. Etc. Etc.

 

[wonderwaleye]

Dear Meh

Is this lawyer going on line as you say telling folks this?

" I've noticed that even online people may think I'm smart or nice or whatever, but they find out I'm bipolar and suddenly if I'm having a bad day I'm "crazy." If I have an opinion they don't like I'm "crazy."

If he is, something can be done about it.

This lawyer must be a bad date.



NO MATTER WHAT ALWAYS REMEMBER:




XEven though you can't see Him, GOD is there!O
( click on the X and move to the O ) ( then feel who is around you )

 

[meh]

He was a VERY bad date! But God used him to show me how wonderful being single in His service can be

I don't think he'd track me online. He just gossips and I understand people get nervous about mental illnesses. It's just hurtful sometimes.

I like your signature. I smiled when I went from X to O.

xxmeh

 

[Alive again]

He was a VERY bad date! But God used him to show me how wonderful being single in His service can be

I don't think he'd track me online. He just gossips and I understand people get nervous about mental illnesses. It's just hurtful sometimes.

I like your signature. I smiled when I went from X to O.

xxmeh

Hello and welcome to our forum!!! I definitely believe there is misunderstnding and stigmas in our society surrounding mental illness. I have experienced them and had to face some of my own as I came to terms with my own illness. I have the blessing of joining the In Our Own Voice crew here locally. This allows me to tell my story in my community and help to break down stigmas.

In my own life the strongest misunderstanding of my illness I find is among medical personnel and Christians.

I do agree that I do not hide my illness, nor do I advertise it. I chose to whom, how and when I disclose it. So far I have not encountered what you have with someone else feeling like they have the right to "gossip" about me. I would think a lawyer would understand that he is disclosing confidential information that could be damaging to your work. UGH!!!

I pray that God will bless you and your business during this time.

 

[wonderwaleye]

He was a VERY bad date! But God used him to show me how wonderful being single in His service can be

I don't think he'd track me online. He just gossips and I understand people get nervous about mental illnesses. It's just hurtful sometimes.

I like your signature. I smiled when I went from X to O.

xxmeh

Dear Meh

Thank you for your kind reply.



I can only tell you
that GODS SIGNATURE was a truly a BLESSING from GOD.


IT IS NOT MY SIGNATURE. IT BELONGS TO ANYONE WISHING TO POST IT.


SURE DOES HELP ME TO REMEMBER:



XEven though you can't see Him, GOD is there!O
( click on the X and move to the O ) ( then feel who is around you )

 

[angelkiss]

Welcome to CF! Well, I can relate to people not taking you seriously. When I first started dating my husband, I told him I was bipolar and he actually laughed at me. He even said that mental illness was "over-rated" His family had never experienced anything like this, so it was hard for him to grasp that it is actually real. Didn't take him long, after being with me, to find out that it is in fact, soooo real! He still has trouble understanding it, but he has finally acknowledged that it does in fact exist. I am living proof.
Now, when he makes fun of me, I tell him he better watch what he says for it can come back on him one day. Of course, he thinks he's invinsible and says "Oh, that will never happen to me." Well, for his sake and others like him, I hope it never does.

 

[AngelRider]

I'm so happy to have found a Christian web-site with a forum like this.

I am wondering if anyone else has the problem of people not taking you so seriously when they find out you have bipolar? I've noticed that even online people may think I'm smart or nice or whatever, but they find out I'm bipolar and suddenly if I'm having a bad day I'm "crazy." If I have an opinion they don't like I'm "crazy."

I'm really open about having this disease, because I don't think I need to be ashamed. But I've also noticed as word spreads I'm getting less business. (I'm a free-lance paralegal).

I just wondered if others deal with this or can relate.

God Bless,
Mary

I have the same mental illness and you really have to learn to keep your mouth more quiet around others to keep this issue out of the forefront. I can not tell you how many times my own mouth because of my mania episodes got me into serious regrets and avoiding of people as a result until months down the road and lots of prayers to God to protect me from further embarrassment.

I have and still am learning how to cope with this illness and how it makes me weird at times too. You and I are going to definitely stick together and encourage each other here and others as well.

God loves you

thanks for this post....and no you are not alone

 

[meh]

Thank you all for kind replies and advice. I am definately going to be more reserved when talking about this.

 

[Yusuphhai]

Hello Meh (and Family),

If we are not in serious mania or depression and we do not advertise, no strangers know our mental illness. But only if we need express our difficulties honestly to a honest friend, we can tell the truth without doubting. Not only the society, even some of the doctors of mental illness look down this kind of patients. So, may Lord who never abandon us comfort you now and then, and we are here to live a beautiful life together.

Sincerely, Yusuph in Messiah Jesus