@Mazarita I was deeply impressed when I read your post re Cameron. I too have been diagnosed with Bipolar 1. You summed up my feelings and thoughts so well because they echo my journey and experience so closely. I have repeated your post below to refresh your mind. We have much in common I should love to converse more deeply with you at some stage. Cheers for now and thanks for expressing my thoughts in your words so well.
"Have now read back over the whole discussion and found it interesting and rewarding. Thanks so much, @cameron, @s-jay and everyone who was here for the discussion tonight.
As many on the forum know, I have a diagnosis of Bipolar 1. Throughout my life, people have consistently failed to recognise that I might have any kind of mental illness, by the way I present myself to the world. It usually takes me to actually tell them about it, and is often met with disbelief. And yet, I struggle to function in many basic ways pretty much ever single day of my life.
I like the show's way of reflecting this way in which people with mental illness and people without can be virtually indistinguishable. This would not always be the case, especially for people in acute stages of their mental illness. But for many of us, it might be heartening to feel that we are not 'obvious' in our illness much of the time. Personally, it makes me reflect on the ways I stigmatise myself about my mental illness, something I will continue to work on freeing myself from!
Thanks again to all involved!"
