Yesterday I was out and about. I was talking to someone yesterday and I was telling her that I write a lot on bipolar disorder. She asked what that is and I explained it to her. She said “What are bipolar people like?”

She asked if that is like being crazy. I told her:

People with bipolar are not crazy
Many people have bipolar
Many successful people have bipolar
Bipolar can be controlled and managed
and I went on and on and on.

At the end, she said a good friend of mine has manic depression is that the same thing? I said yes and told her to check out my website www.bipolarcentral.com.

One of the things that I think that is a problem is this. Many times, you only hear people with bipolar associated with maybe some bad things. You don’t get to hear all the good things that people with bipolar do.

I think this is because that the people who have it that do great things, don’t necessarily tell people they have it. For example, I have 2 people that work with me that have bipolar. I have known them for 5 years. They have done TREMENDOUS work. I haven’t ever noticed that had any signs or symptoms. These people are IMPRESSIVE. Anyway, I just found out they have bipolar this past year. I never would have known. So I could have gone through life thinking so and so is great but never knowing she had bipolar disorder.

People ask me all the time, what’s it like to have over 10,000 people with bipolar disorder on a mailing list having your phone number? I tell them, it’s no problem. I have more problems in another business with JUST 40 people having my email and phone number.

The most mean people that I deal with have nothing to do with my websites related to bipolar disorder. They actually work with me in a non related business.

My entire point is this, many people know people with bipolar disorder, there are many success stories, and I think the stigma would be reduced if more people had more information on what bipolar is and isn’t and also knew of many the success stories.

Dave