What’s your opinion of bipolar people?

I’ve only met and confirmed two people in my life that were bipolar: my mother and a girl I knew in high school. My mom rarely goes manic and doesn’t actually think she’s bipolar. With the girl in high school we had an asshole brother/bitchy sister type relationship.

So yeah, I feel being friends with bipolar people is somewhat of a chore.

 

If you're unaware that someone is bipolar, it could definitely be trying, to be in a friendship/relationship with him/her, but once you become aware, compassion and understanding go a long way. Knowledge is power, as they say.

 

I think they suck

 

I think they are ok

 

I think they are manic

 

Hard to say, since I've only ever known of one definitely bipolar person........he was amusing, though also a dick at times. I dunno really, they vary like everyone else does.

 

They aren't all bad. Ive known quite a few, but only one that was really a hot mess. As long as they take their medication and whatever regimen they follow to keep it under control, they aren't bad folks. They can function as well as everyone else. there are far more worse people out there we have to deal with that aren't bipolar, and some of them are rather difficult to deal with.

 

They should all be sended back to their own country

 

Bi-polar people who argue madly with bi-polar people are to blame for the multi-verse .

 

People who are slightly different from the norm take a little more effort, but you sleep better and know that you have a sincere friend.

We have a teenage lad with downs syndrome living down the road.
He will sit in our front garden watching me work on the car and he sees nothing wrong with walking into our house and making himself a cup of tea. Some afternoons he will end up in our back garden playing with the cats afterwards.
Most local people have no problem with him at all and it gives his parents a well earned break for a few hours.

Sometimes city life makes people selfish and self centered, but their are still thousands of people who still care about others..

 

Time for yet another unpopular opinion, ready yourselves.

I do not believe that bipolar is a real disorder least not in the sense that it requires medication to correct. I've lived with a bipolar person for 8 years & I've found that she can even her moods out through strength of will alone. Therefore I believe that bipolar disorder is a simple lack of willpower & self control. In my opinion most who deal with it just want an easy fix & turn to medicine instead of coping on their own.

So what do I think of bipolar people? I think they lack the mental & spiritual strength or drive to deal with their emotions without medicinal assistance. Do I feel that makes them bad people? No simply makes them human beings.

 

I have a new theory on women who say they’re bipolar. They are lying and using it as an excuse to be bitchy while they’re PMSing (jk)

 

Well... They're people. Which means they differ from each other. What makes things a little more complicated is that they also tend to differ from themselves... A LOT.
Which makes this question very difficult to answer imho. Since there's also a lot of difference in severety of symptoms or if you will characteristics I don't think any generalizations on whether "they" need or are able to benefit from medication are appropriate. Also very much depends on context if you ask me. I've encountered quite a few people with this diagnosis due to my profession and once had the privilege of attending a talk by Kay Redfield Jamison. I thought she was awesome.

 

I am in Two minds about them !

 

I think what you say has been said about alcoholic and addicted people too. And as several people have said, it is all about severity of symptoms. Simply because your person can manage her symptoms with her will doesn't mean the majority of people can do the same or should. There are some alcoholics who can drink a little. Some people can smoke a cigarette or two a day. Maybe there are crack, heroin, opiod and meth users who only need a hit every third month. Those people are outliers. The majority of people with difficult addictions and medical conditions cannot overcome them with stiff upper lips. If you would not say this about someone with cancer... "Oh you're just carping about your illness. You can control that rapid cell growth and stop that cancer with mental and spiritual strength and drive!" ... don't say it about mental illness! Mental illnesses have physical basises. Often medications and therapy help . Sometimes diet and exercise help too. This is also true of other illnesses like cancer. Medicines are not an "EASY" fix for mental illness. They all have side effects and most people don't like to take them because of that. But the flip side of not taking medication with bipolar illness is often broken relationships, lost jobs, families, ruined finances, sexual indiscretions, because during psychotic manias, people act, temporarily, insane. Then during depressions following manias, they realize what they've done and sometimes slip into suicidal regret. It is VERY difficult to get mood disorders under control. I left a good friend behind after a dozen years because she stopped taking her medication, was drinking heavily, not reporting to her 20 year teaching job and was acting bizarre. She was also suicidal. I had been talking to her and supporting her in getting help for months, but she was in denial that anything was wrong. Her spouse was overwhelmed and not a proactive person. This is a serious, real illness and not to be thought of as something people can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and manage, in general..

 

Well said.

 

its a made up illness that assholes use to excuse their assholeness

 

I did say it would be an unpopular opinion. Regardless of your "moral" outrage I stand by it. People spend their whole lives running from their problems when they should be facing them head on. Also according to her doctors the woman I referenced has a very severe form of bipolar disorder so I, for one, applaud her strength & celebrate her accomplishments.

 

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