What Does BiPolar Look Like?

No seriously? What does it look like? I get this question a lot from wide ranges of ages. I have had the comment "You sure do laugh a lot and seem happy to suffer from BiPolar, I never would have guessed" Or I have gotten "You just don't look it, I picture someone older, heavier set, bags under their eyes from eyes and sleep loss, but you are active, playing with your kids, taking funny pictures.."

Let me tell you right now.. BiPolar doesn't make you look a certain way!! Yes I am almost 31, tall, slender build (slenderish for having kids) Yes, I laugh a lot and I am a complete dork once you get to know me. Yes I love to take dorky pictures with my friends or even selfies and put them on FB. Just because we don't let our disease take control of our life doesn't mean we don't suffer from it. If someone has been diagnosed with bipolar chances you are on a cocktail of drugs that are balancing out your moods and keeping them level. It's like having diabetes or even HIV if you are on your medication you can live a relatively normal, active, FUN, life. It doesn't mean we sit at home, crying in a dark room. (ok.. well WE do sometimes) But I think you understand what Im trying to say.

We have good days and bad days just like every other person in this world. We have days where we don't want to get out of my pj's and want to sit at home and feel sorry for ourselves and eat out of a tub of ice cream. Those days I choose to spend with it with two men.. "Ben and Jerry"
Then we have days where we feel great and want to get out and do things with our friends and family. Take those fun pictures, laugh and enjoy the times that we do feel good, because we never know how long these periods will last for. We may need those memories to help us get through the bad times when we have them again, because trust me will have them again!!

So remember not everyone looks the same. We all suffer from something going on in our lives. Whether it be finances, depression, diabetes, cancer, HIV, divorces, pain from a car accident. You just never know.. not everyone is suppose to fit into a certain category of an image. Just keep an open mind and don't judge before you walk in someone else's shoes.

MUCH LOVE WARRIORS!

BIPOLAR DIVA