POLARLINES: You got Jokes huh?

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

You got Jokes huh?

Dude why are you acting so bipolar?
I feel like I’m acting borderline
This weather is bipolar.

I love that people that say these things don’t even understand what they mean. I remember when I worked someone where one the Transportation providers I used for Transportation started making comments about me being bipolar and thought I was difficult to work with. Little did they know I was battling mental health issues. Same with me. I was just very unhappy and angry most of the time.

I cant help I’m this way. I was diagnosed with bipolar in 2015 and borderline personality disorder in 2016. My symptoms fall more in line with the latter. I remember reading my psychiatric reports about the borderline and how I felt my life was over. I felt like it was the end for me. That I had to go on medication for the rest of my life and it will suck my will to live. To be creative.

It turned me into a monster. The amount of meds I took was off the chart and I didn’t know who I was half the time. When I got of meds my stability returned but many pieces of my life have needed to be put back together and slowly day by day I am a going through that process.

I don’t think both these mental illnesses are something to joke about. They are serious mental conditions that lead to self harm and suicide. Does that sound funny? I just posted a stats article about bipolar. Here’s something chilling:

“30% of individuals with bipolar disorder will attempt suicide during their lives, and 20% will succeed … . Suicide is more common in bipolar depression than in unipolar major depression, panic disorder, or even schizophrenia.

So next time you make a joke about being bipolar think about the serious battle just to wake up in the morning someone inflicted goes through. Just to go to work to drive a car to eat a meal. These things can ordinary to some but many of us with MI struggle.
Thanks for reading. Stick with the process
M

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Polarlines is an organization started in 2017 to help inform the public about the two mental illnesses borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder. However the main goal of Polarlines is to provide support and information to the wonderful people inflicted with these illness.

Through support, information, social contact, meetings and conventions, Polarlines aims to fight the fight against these very difficult and menacing illnesses. We want to let people know that they are not alone. The founder of this organization has been diagnosed with many different illness, including borderline. So there is a personal touch to this.

Also we seek to end the stigma against these illness along with mental health issues in general. We want to aid in the notion is OK to talk about this sickness. After all its OK to talk about cancer, heart disease, strokes, etc, etc. Why not talk about a disease that has led to many people killing themselves or committing senseless acts of violence due to fear to talk about or ask for help when it's very apparent that is what is needed. In order to open doors for a better humanity, these issues must be discussed with an open mind and no jokes attached with it.

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