'Coming out' as bipolar
- 13 Jul 07, 10:35 AM
Hello. Whilst our fabulous guest bloggers are very much still here, I thought I'd pop my head above the parapet quickly to tell you about a new blog entry I spotted, which you really should read. The author of Back in a Bit writes about his experience of 'coming out' to his family with the revelation that he's got Bipolar Disorder. In a wide-ranging post, the writer has a few points to make about how bipolarity is now often seen as 'fashionable' due to the number of celebrities professsing to it:
"Curiously, even though saying “manic depression” is out of fashion, being depressed, it seems, is spectacularly fashionable. In fact, Bipolar Disorder carries with it a certain (and ever-so-slightly annoying) celebrity prowess ... I have wondered whether, like being slim, the popularity of depression is a link to youth - for many, the teenage years are also amongst the most depressing they shall ever experience."
This is a topic that has been covered by Ouch's very own Liz Main in some of her columns in the past, too.
Check out this post - definitely worth reading.
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