I'm proud to be bipolar, is anyone else proud?

I have no problem telling someone that I'm bipolar. It is a part of who I am and always will be. It has it's flaws and it benefits. It allows me to experience things that no other person will ever know. I am creative because of it. I'm proud of my battle scars too. It has intergrated itself into my personality to the point in which I don't know what is it or I. Therefore shouldn't I be proud of who I am if I'm being treated and who I am now is just who I will always be?

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I've been bipolar probably more years than you've been alive. I wouldn't say I was "proud" because that infers you feel a certain superiority over others who aren't bipolar. I have no problem telling people that I have this disorder--in the proper context and setting. I'm not going to tell someone on a first date or in a mixed social setting where I don't know everyone because it's not appropriate and it's not germane to the general conversation.

Naturally, like many bipolars I enjoy the highs and have even come to respect some of the worse lows I've experienced. They have made me a stronger person and led me to experiences I wouldn't have tried othewise. But that doesn't give me the right to let my disorder take over to the point I don't know what is it or I as you put it. I admit, I didn't quite understand what you meant by that, but I think I got the gist.

I don't think bipolars can afford to be proud of their disorder if they allow it to hurt others. You know as well as I do, that in either phase we can say or do hurtful things without realizing the impact on others. Sometimes we just don't get it--why should they be mad at us or crying or whatever when they should have known we didn't mean it that way.

The older you get as a bipolar the more you'll realize what a responsibility you have and how you need to use it for your own good and those around you.

End of sermon.

As long as you're not too manic or too depressed, which is what being bipolar is, then more power to you. But I doubt that's the case.
Sorry, I'm not bipolar. But good for you for not hiding who you are!
BE PROUD! Just stay on your med's please
Strictly heteropolar here, so I wouldn't know.
Be proud of whatever you like.
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wow, you are manic aren't you
I have OCD and don't mind people knowing. It has given me an eye for detail, and a wide range of abilities, I've come to realize most people don't possess.

So, good for you!
I am also proud. I can't imagine being any other way. I like having life interesting. All the up and downs are just part of my fulfilling life that I have created and enjoy very much.
I'm not proud to be bi-polar just because the diagnoses limits my job options. And I do not identify myself as BEING bi-polar I have simply been Diagnosed as having bipolar.
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