When a person is diagnosed with any mental illness they may
experience feeling a lot of shame. The public seems to have a
lot of negative thoughts associated with people that have any
form of mental illness. What people don’t understand is that it
is not something anyone chooses to have or enjoys dealing with
anymore than a person diagnosed with cancer. Also, just because
they have the illness does NOT mean that everything they say and
do that offends you can be attributed to their “disease.”
Although having a mental illness is not a death sentence, it is
something that doesn’t go away. They have to deal with it and
the ramifications of it every single day. The best thing you can
do is be supportive and remember that it is not always “them”
you are dealing with daily. So let’s talk specifically about
Bipolar Disorder. What exactly is it? Bipolar disorder means
that a person will have extreme mood swings in which they go
from very high and energized (manic) to very low, unmotivated
and depressed. The high peri