A poll for Girls

[Paz]

 Just for the girls....sorry guys.
  I could vent enormous amounts of frustration right now, but I'll just vote now, see how you all vote and then vent.

 As always with my polls, you can choose 2 options.

[Dreamline]

I don't have a partner

[Paz]

Aw shit, I didn't take that into consideration.....I suck. Sorry. But can you relate to any of the poll answers? Maybe how your past love had treated you?

[goosemuffin]

I voted equal and helpless child. When I'm stable and all is well...he really treats me equal and I know he tries when Im 'sick'  but I feel like he think s  I can't do shit when I'm having an episode.

[Phyllis]

I voted "is in denial"  because that is what it feels like to me. we don't discuss "it" very much at all. Which makes me feel... hmm.... less of a person I guess. I mean I don't want to talk about it 24/7. But I want to be able to discuss things without being compared to other people.

[Dreamline]

When I was dating my ex, I wasn't diagnosed but he basically looked at me like I was crazy and seemed to resent it a lot.  I still talk to him (though we'll never date again) and now that he knows, he is in denial, doesn't want to discuss "it" at all.  When I made him listen to me and explained to him what bipolar was, he got upset, didn't say anything.  He pretended like it didn't bother him at all but I could tell he was trying not to cry.  I can tell for some reason he really doesn't want me to have that label.  Before I explained it he tried to say that I was not bipolar and I was just "depressed all the time".  I was like WTF?  I asked him about if he remembers how I get most of the time...hyper and all that manic-ness. 

[cadno]

You know people say the same about me, they remember me being down but they don't seem to remember the highs!

Rich

[Dreamline]

What most people seem to remember w/ me is what they have seen.  That can vary because some people I won't talk to at all when depressed...some people I might see less when manic due to excessive involvement in something.   So I guess it can go either way. 

Now with my ex...he was just in denial...he has had to babysit when I was manic and when I was depressed.  He doesn't want to believe it.  I mean dammit it is "it" really that horrible of a thing to believe?