So prior to recently, the only people I ever shared my bipolar dianosis with were my very close friends and my immediate family. After finding out about NKM2, I became inspired to share myself with the world (well the world may be an over exsageration since I'm not bilingual).

Anyways, so I decide to tell my mother about my enlightenment. She says to me "Jennifer I don't know if I'd do that if I were you. You know that bipolar disorder has a bad rep". I say to her "Really? Mom I think that's the whole point I'm making here. I'd like to help stop the social stigma." She says, "No I don't think you understand. There are like alot of people out there who are worse off than you. They are like really bad, and they give it a bad repuation." I say, "Ummm...Well thank you, but I think what I'm trying to show here mom is that Bipolar people are bad. They are misunderstood and disearve our support". She still ends this conversation with "I still don't think you should".

I just wanted to share this moment with others. I feel that the more we all become vocal about mental health disorder the easier it becomes to help hard-headed people like my mother to understand that it is not something to be shameful about. No one asks for their mental health disorder, contracts it from someone else, or even currently has the ability to cure it. However, it becomes apart of who we are. I'm not going to be ashamed of it, I'm going be proud of it because its apart of my personality and no one should be ashamed of their personality.

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