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You Aren't Bipolar, You're Just a Jerk!

Marissa6 Wrote: Dec 18, 2009 9:56 AM
You're wrong. It is not something that is considered to be okay by society. With people using the term lightly and throwing it around to anybody and everybody on one hand. And people like you saying bipolar is just code for jerk (I've heard it all before). Those of us that actually struggle go underground feeling broken and lost.

I was put in therapy and on medications when I was 14 and had no choice as I was a minor. And I was not a jerk but a depressed teenager with a sick mother in a nursing home and a dad who was having a not so secret affair with my mom's former live in nurse. On top of that he was verbally abusive. They didn't do it as a way to excuse my behavior but to excuse his and focus on making me accept it until I...
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