Gabe Howard

Bipolar recovery, by contrast, is boring. When I am driving to work, reading, or cleaning my house—all while living with bipolar—it isn’t at all exciting. Living well with this illness looks just like everyone else’s typical life.

The advantage to telling people you’re living with bipolar disorder is to provide an example of someone living well in spite of the illness. It allows you to show a different side, to show there is hope to someone who has been newly diagnosed.

Essentially, we have the opportunity to show society the entire spectrum of this condition instead of just the worst parts of it. If all society sees is the crisis points, we can hardly blame them for thinking that is all there is.

Gabe Howard

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