When you find out someone has heart disease ... do you say "I had a feeling you were heart disease!" ... NO. SO why is it OK for someone to say ..."Ohhhhh I knew you were Bipolar." .... No. It's an illness ... its a sickness... it's a disease ... i HAVE Bipolar disorder, there is a big difference in saying it that way.

This episode visits the frustrations I have with verbIage related to mental illness (clearly) ... Anyway, I do tend to get heated when I feel I am defending "myself" i.e. defending all of us with mental illness ... as It is so frustrating when it sometimes become so obvious that most of the people out there do NOT have any idea what to "do" with someone that has mental illness... why don't we just start with the obvious? "ARE YOU OK?" ... and then be sure to follow that with "It's OK That You're Not OK" - like the book about ...