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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 1094904" data-attributes="member: 7261">I'm glad that you were able to survive and live with this [USER=13032]@Heyjoe4[/USER]As [USER=17953]@Voyageur[/USER] correctly point out, so many don't and it either kills them or debilitates them for life.  I grew up with a bipolar mother and it was always so sad to see her friends and even some family members treat her like she had the plague whenever she would have a bad mood swing.  Where they afraid of her?  Because she wasn't dangerous.  Where they embarrassed to be around her?  I wasn't.  Or where they just so programmed to think not being "normal" was broken or wrong?  While modern medicine has come a ways with treating brain disorders, society in general really hasn't.  So may people are intolerant of anyone that doesn't fit inside their box of what is "normal".  Their "norms" being applied, of course.Walk around on crutches due to a broken leg and people will open doors for you, ask if they can give you a hand.  Walk around with a brain that is foggy or not quite clear at the time, watch people run and try to pretend that you don't exist.</blockquote>

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