Comments on: What is the future going to be like with regard to the stigma bipolar disorder carries? http://www.multidisorder.com/what-is-the-future-going-to-be-like-with-regard-to-the-stigma-bipolar-disorder-carries/ Disorder : Disruption of standard functioning. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roxy5 http://www.multidisorder.com/what-is-the-future-going-to-be-like-with-regard-to-the-stigma-bipolar-disorder-carries/comment-page-1/#comment-3266 Roxy5 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:07:10 +0000 http://www.multidisorder.com/what-is-the-future-going-to-be-like-with-regard-to-the-stigma-bipolar-disorder-carries/#comment-3266 The stigma against mental illness may gradually improve, but I doubt it will become as widely acknowledged and supported as things like breast cancer are currently any time soon, which is a bummer because it is such a crap diagnosis to accept and deal with. It's hard enough for the person who is diagnosed, but when you pile on the stigma and negative attitude of the general public it makes it that much harder. The public has to care enough to educate themselves, and bipolar people need to be brave enough to out themselves so others can see that we're not just violent nutjobs. There are some bipolar people with above average intellegence, but there have been no studies directly correlating mental illness and intelligence. The stigma against mental illness may gradually improve, but I doubt it will become as widely acknowledged and supported as things like breast cancer are currently any time soon, which is a bummer because it is such a crap diagnosis to accept and deal with. It’s hard enough for the person who is diagnosed, but when you pile on the stigma and negative attitude of the general public it makes it that much harder. The public has to care enough to educate themselves, and bipolar people need to be brave enough to out themselves so others can see that we’re not just violent nutjobs.

There are some bipolar people with above average intellegence, but there have been no studies directly correlating mental illness and intelligence.

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