My therapist asked me at my last session… What was your biggest fear about being diagnosed as bipolar, what is your greatest fear about living with your diagnosis?

I shrugged my shoulders and bit the inside of my lip as the tears started to form in the corners of my eyes. Only one?

Why was I afraid to be diagnosed? In my younger years it was because there was a severely negative picture painted of people with bipolar disorder in media, in the world in general. You were told they’re irrationa...