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Doctahdoctah69150 karma

Does anyone on the staff responding here actually have bipolar disorder? And if so, how has it influenced your path to where you are now?

We often don’t have people to look up to because there’s such a stigma that few people are open about it. I plan to be a physician, and it’s tough for a lot of us in higher level education (of course, it’s hard for all of us; I’m just speaking from my own experience) to handle so many things including coursework, clinical duties, exams, medical appointments, medication adjustments, sleep cycle disturbances, etc. Mark Vonnegut is the only openly bipolar physician that I’ve come across.

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What are some personality traits of Bipolar? My psychiatrist said I fit the bill including being an entertainer among other things, and I couldn’t really find that in literature, just standard DIGFAST and assoc traits