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| Author: | bluedragon1200 [ Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:33 am ] |
| Blog Subject: | The right wording |
I'm not sure if "I have bipolar" or if "I am bipolar." If I have bipolar, then I have an illness. Which is true. I don't like the thought of it some days. I feel good, I feel like I can make it. Not the "I can do anything" mania feeling, but the "I can wake up and get stuff done, I'm not going to get fired, or start twenty projects I can't do" sort of I can do it. Everyone says "I won't let bipolar define me," but if I am bipolar, then it's part of me. Surely my friends will all describe me in a way that shows my hypomania. I'm creative, inconsistent, hyper, I talk a lot. Sometimes I'm just weird. So much of hypomania is mixed in, there is no way to take it out. You don't describe your friends as diabetic or lactose-intolerant. I don't think of my husband as having cerebral palsy very often. Yeah, you see the limp, but there's so much more to him than that. It's shaped his personality. It's him, though. Sometimes it just scares me. It's like eating Taco bell and wondering if you're going to have explosive diarrhea during work the next day. What happens when I have to miss three days of school because I can't stop crying? It's really silly to think about; I'm hardly ever sick. A mental health day wouldn't hurt. I don't know how my husband puts up with it; I don't know what I'll do when he's gone. |
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