blog #6

People often look at bipolar disorder in a very negative way. They would that the constant mood swings and capability of snapping at any moment would be too much for them to handle. I for one have known a bipolar person in the past and she was a wonderful person. She was very patient and worked very hard to get along with people. What she went through everyday was a fight for happiness. She was only as happy as she let herself believe she was because of her condition. She would often hide out from people when she was in manic phase because she only wanted people to see the good happy side of her, not the depressant side. She just wanted to get along with people but because she was a severe bipolar she could not do that. She became a recluse. A recluse that would only come out in her happiest phases so that people wouldn't think she was crazy. she was very self-conscious about her condition when really she was just the average joe with mood swings. I have known her a while and I can honestly say that her mood swings are not as severe as people let her to believe. It wasn't her self-esteem that led her to be a recluse, it was the negative things people would say about her condition. Society led her out to be crazy and so that is how she viewed herself. Well I knew this woman for a long time and I can say that she was not crazy. She simply had a genetic medical condition that people take way too far.