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Once you know why you’re telling someone you have bipolar disorder, it leads you to understand what you want from the conversation — your goals. (If you can’t stay calm, don’t worry, you’re human, it happens.)Write down what you want to say ahead of time. This is a lot of tips on how to tell someone you have bipolar disorder, I don’t think you can expect to remember them all in a difficult moment so plan out ahead of time what you want to say and how you want to say it. You need support and you need to feel free to be your real self around people and this conversation can help get you there.

Once you know why you’re telling someone you have bipolar disorder, it leads you to understand what you want from the conversation — your goals. (If you can’t stay calm, don’t worry, you’re human, it happens.)Write down what you want to say ahead of time. This is a lot of tips on how to tell someone you have bipolar disorder, I don’t think you can expect to remember them all in a difficult moment so plan out ahead of time what you want to say and how you want to say it. You need support and you need to feel free to be your real self around people and this conversation can help get you there.

I believe people should do what they truly want, but there is no time in the year when this is less the case. And as I said, an illness, mental or another type, can induce unhappiness any time, and certainly one of those times can be at the holidays. While I don’t think that isolating completely is healthy when you’re already unhappy, you can choose to step back from holiday-themed events and plan others. I’m a firm believer that you need to reach out to people you trust when you’re feeling unhappy, depressed or in other ways compromised.

I have a mental illness, of course, bipolar disorder, and I know that my mental illness affects my family members. (This is besides the fact that mental illness tends to run in families and generally when one person has a serious mental illness, more than one person does.) Often staying well is a challenge that also affects the whole family from the family engaging in therapy to help the person with the mental illness to changes in habits and routines to help the person stay well. And I would suggest that when the mental illness in question is , illness in all members of the family is almost unavoidable.