About three months ago I posted that I and others had left the support group offered by
DBSA (Depression/Bi Polar Support Alliance).
The alternate group we started has been going GREAT!!
We've been meeting on Monday nights at Gallery 560, a beautiful & spacious art gallery in San Francisco's Union Square. The gallery is owned & curated by Leo Madrid, one of our members.
Another of our group members, Lou Rita Butler, who works at Gallery 560, offers this blog commentary about the judgement we bi-polars often get from others:
Judgement:
by Lou Rita Butler
After a diagnosis of Bi-Polar, the undiagnosed (who I prefer to call "normies") treat you with indifference at best, fear at worst.
There are exceptions, but these are few.
Once your diagnosis is known, the word "vision" is translated to the word "delusion".
Goals become grandiose.
Thinking and any form of success is a mere fluke or accident.
The expression of any kind of emotion becomes taboo.
Excitement equals mania.
Anger equals irritability.
Sadness equals depression.
You forfeit the right to own any feelings when you're bi-polar.
In most instances, the real difference of living with the diagnosis comes not from within ourselves, but from the reflections we see in other's eyes.
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David Alex Nahmod
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May 2009
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It often seems that if you are too "angry", or too "mentally ill", or cannot donate money to fight equality (i.e. - dirt poor), that your voice is unimportant in the LGBTQ tent (I'm going to jettison the term "community" until it actually FEELS like one).
At least that's my experience as an angry, poor, recently-diagnosed bi-polar person.
Bipolar is an illness like fruit is a dessert, when you want it to be.
the DSM is about as useful as a:
a first aid manual
b stereo manual
c cat on fire
d brick
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