Literally have this issue today. It bothers me but hey btw love your videos been here for years🤘🏽

This is just like when people say “everyone’s somewhere on the spectrum”

using disabilities and illnesses as a substitute word can be very harmful, even if they’re not intending to say it in a derogatory way. Overtime people will subconsciously link the two words together and for most people that’ll be the extent of their knowledge of said disabilities or illnesses. That those with it are associated with a term that more than likely doesn’t apply to most if not all of people with it.

I just had a emergency room nurse say pretty much the same thig to me.

Ask these moody people, do you require daily medicine to keep your symptoms from ruining your life?

They need to change it to something else or back to MD because it's been stripped of its severity and definitive illness So yes, I'm in the camp where it bothers me. We deserve to be respected for our actual living condition.

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Moody is based on fact and circumstance. Bipolar is moods based on chemistry that doesn't often align with circumstance. That's the tough part.

Just when you think things are getting better, the roller coaster ride goes on

I have bipolar type 1, and it has had a devastating impact on my life, although I have managed to get through it all. I'm sorry if this sounds bad, but I was a gardener for 25 years and the thought of having a bipolar lawnmower, because it starts some days and not others, I find fantastically hilarious! 😂🤣😂 I use humour and my faith to cope with everything, including my illness 🤦. I feel the bipolar in me is a breakage, but I embrace it, and make the most of it.

I'm a Mother of 3 Adult Children with different labels (diagnosis). One who was incarcerated a lengthy time. Still getting released from the legal system. They all have wonderful Strengths, Personalities, & are loving giving people. But it's real the war, to be okay. To keep job positions. I'm very proud of them. And very proud of all the Families Who continue to be healthy, happy & persevere. God Bless You All. Thank You for these Videos & Your Time to provide them. They've got us through some most difficult times 😁😅😀 often with Some Laughter through the tears T.Y. ❤

Just recently my boss said his weather was bipolar. In a meeting later, a few of my coworkers said the same thing about the weather. I know they don't know I have Bipolar Disorder, but the comments stung a little. It felt diminishing in a way.

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Im worried that my meds are slowing me down and killing my creativity, I’m seriously considering stopping meditations so I can feel creative again

My parents can tell when I'm on a high or low. I just wish they would handle it better. As for using the term bipolar as a slang word is offensive, people don't know our suffering. If they did, it wouldn't be slang.

Being moody is acting like a security guard... being bi polar is like I'm on seal team 6 Nothing to brag about. Just an illustrative comparison of intensity

Hello!I was diagnosed bipolar type two this year at 46.My mother was bipolar too, but she never knew that such an illness exists.When I was young, I told my friends that my mom is sad in the morning and lucky in the evening, because she is 'the scales'(horoscope)😂.Greetings from Europe!

I hate how people like my parents say, "What the hell is wrong with you?" "Knock off your insanity." and, "Are you taking your medication right?" They don't understand because they don't suffer like me.

Anyone who asks that question has never dealt with a bipolar person. The extremes are impossible to miss.

Perhaps so, but does everyone also have symptoms that prohibit them from doing tasks of daily living? No? Then that person is not diagnosed as bipolar.

Thank you, I like your delivery on this.

so glad you are back thank you

Day 7 no sleep this month 😴 😪 🙃

Look, this is my opinion as someone with it. It’s perfectly fine to use bipolar as an adjective AS LONG as they have an understanding of the illness, if they don’t… then they assume they have it too it’s like no 😢😂

Being in a "mood" you do Not decide to destroy your Life and the lives of others and or objects building around you. Bipolar can be extreamly destructive to yourself and everyone and everything around you, in an emotional and physical sense. If you are in a bad mood you might yell at someone. But Bipolar is as dangerous as a drunk driver, driving a car all day long. You might make it home safely, but odds are you or someone else or both or physical objects will be damaged before you get home.

Im at the point where I wont bother with comments like that. "Isnt everyone depressed?" "Isnt everyone anxious?"

The term manic-depression became stigmatized and was replaced with bipolar disorder. I wonder if they will try to replace bipolar disorder next.

The most dangerous that happens is a lack of true understanding of a situation like Bipolar. It gets so aggravating.

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My most common night terror is thinking that there is a strange man in the room with me. I'll sit straight up in bed yelling at Alexa to turn my lamp on and I will be in full panic mode until I get some form of light in the room. It does get exhausting because I can cycle through this 4-5 times before I finally stay awake. Sometimes if I turn my lamp to the dimmest setting and leave it on that will help me stay asleep. I have jumped out of bed screaming at my boyfriend, and with my ex I actually jumped out of bed and took off running slamming all the doors behind me so he couldn't follow me. I didn't wake up until my hand was on the front door knob and I was about to run into road. That is the worst one I've ever had and I am extremely thankful that I have not had one to that extent since.

Oooooo this sentence stings 😭 Love you Rob

Never heard anyone here in Denmark saying stuff like "the weather is bipolar" .. Think that might be a more critical view from someone who lives with bipolar, or more inclined to think that way duo to paranoia or something. Cus i can tell. Noone here says stuff like that "oh my lawnmover is bipolar" ... Never ever ever heard that term.. Infact.. In Denmark, its not very common to even talk about it, most people still recognize the illness as Manio-depressive. Im currently seeing someone who is Bipolar. She was very open about it at the beginning. I had little clue what i was going into. Oh damn. Lets just say that the rollercoaster has been quite a ride so far, and we´ve gone from "i love you more than ever and i never want you to leave" to "never want to talk to you again, fuck off" quite a few times already.. So yea, im here to learn.. Thank you so much for makeing this content.. Its been very helpful in learning a bit about whats going on inside of her head, and has expanded my knowledge on this issue, and i feel like its makeing me a more comprehendable person. Thank you.

It’s like how the word “gay” was a pejorative. Even though it was slang it didn’t take away from the harm it did/does to the people who are the butt of the joke. As well as pushing the idea that it’s acceptable for others to joke like that. I had someone call their dog bipolar, I know they “meant well” but I don’t think many people would like being compared to an animal.

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I'm a lot bipolar...

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I feel like I’m on fire and everything and everyone is coming at me with a bucket of gasoline, almost a possession of glowing rage that is so incredibly powerful, terrifying and confusing!

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Love number 12!

I went to a group for four years and not ONCE did anyone bring up sex; even though is was on the list of subjects that could be discussed. Not once. And that was one of the primary reasons I joined. Overall, that grroup was worthless. Just people every meeting sharing their horror stories. I wanted to talk about healing and good information. I've attended several groups and I can learn MORE on youtube and the net.

I feel not telling your doctor that you feel so amazing and great. This happened for years.

I am 43, I've been in psych care since I was 7. Back then psychiatrists were a lot quicker to diagnose children, and I went through a bunch, with medications added. I was around 15 when I got an official diagnosis of clinical depression. I started with a 'best adolescent' psychiatrist at 18. I went through a group of diagnosis' from GAD to BPD. He mostly put me on meds for anxiety. At 20 I had a break and landed up in a facility. Since my main symptoms were depression, self harm, attempting sui, i was diagnosed with clinical depression again. He was a research psychiatrist so i was an earlier case study on the uses of antipsychotics in depression, and they really helped, along with antidepressants and antianxiety meds. I saw him regularly, but by the time I was 23/4 I was stable, or so I thought. Nobody goes to their doctor with the complaint of feeling really great and able to have an amazing life. I have experienced this for as long as I remember, but I didn't think it was a problem. At about 26/7 I needed a new psychologist, as my long term one had left the area. I had a list of those my care team suggested I would gel with. I went to the first one to interview him. I started with my life story, going into detail that I hadn't done in a while, and over a few sessions everything came out. We didn't gel, but he did tell me to go to my psychiatrist and get tested for bipolar. I did and its bipolar 1 mixed with psychosis. Here I am having a handful of meds every morning and night. But I'm doing okay. I am stable enough to parent my kids (i had before diagnosis), and have a difficult relationship with myself, but it doesn't drop me into despair or mania as often.

Thank you for this. I’m trying to figure this out myself now finally. After ten years of dealing with this shit. Idk what to do.