BIPOLAR PERSPECTIVE
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BY: Jillybean
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I have been dxd bipolar 2 for a little over a year now..and what
astounds
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me is the negativity people have about bp. I am not talking about
the
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“normies” as they are called, but the people who actually have bp
themselves. Even
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when I was at my lowest point in the darkest place in my life, I
held on to the
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thought that there was someone worse off than me out there.
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Someone who had no food to eat, no clothes except the ones on
their
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backs, no hose to sleep in. I kept that thought in my mind and I
knew that there
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are worse things than being diagnosed bp..I knew that in the grand
scheme of
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things, bp rates very low on the illnesses that ruin your life
scale. Maybe it’s
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just how I look at it, but I have seen my Grandfather shrivel and
become a
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shell of a person due to Alzhehiemers, I have seen a good friend
die of cancer at
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17. And I know that having bp is nowhere close to either one of
those. I know
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that I am damn lucky to have bp as opposed to many other illnesses
out there.
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Even with the stress and hell I put my family through when first
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diagnosed..it does not compare to the pain others have felt..O
thers who do NOT have
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bp. I have a roof over my head..I have a husband who loves my..and
a child who
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is having his own problems right now. He is only 4 years old and
he goes into
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rages and does not kow why. He worries all the time and never
forgets things
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others say to him that he disliked. He is already scheduled to see
a pdoc the
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23rd.
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To all of you out there that say you can’t deal with being
bp..imagine
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you are just a little boy who doesn’t know why he is so angry or
how to stop
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it..we don’t knoe if he is bp or not, the dr says there is a whole
list of
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possibilities..the thing is..seeing him go through this has put my
bipolar disorder
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into perspective for me. He has it worse off than I do now, and he
can’t even
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communicate why or how he is feeling. I t has made me see that
while I have
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bp, bp does not have me..and it never will. I just keep that
thought in my
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head..there is always someone worse off that you out there..and
people should feel
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lucky they have somthing that while it cannot be cured, it can be
contained.