He turns to his bright-eyed eight year old, sitting but two feet from me, and says, "You see son? This is why you should stay in school."

I watched this and here was what I thought was the chink in his reasoning. Roughly paraphrasing.

"If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It's not.

Yep. Honestly the idea that people have of Bipolar that we are just wacky from one moment to the next is completely false. Some people rapid cycle, that is true but it is the minority, our cycles last months and weeks, it's actually the DSM criteria that hypomania last a certain amount of time, and mania last a…

I get the thing about being afraid of Bipolar. My mom had it and was not diagnosed while I was growing up, and it really affected me. For years I talked trash and I did not know that I had it. But the main thing is, that people with Bipolar are the greatest risk to ourselves. We are at a higher risk to be assaulted…

Yes! Lithium was my starter. I moved on to Lamictal but I proudly bear the a tattoo of the Lithium molecule on my forearm to remember that before Lamictal, people like us were locked up as demon possessed, or doomed, and that medication is here to keep me alive and a blessing of the modern world. I deal with a lot of…

Yes I made a New Year's resolution to be out of the Bipolar closet. There's more of us than we realize but we hide and that makes the loneliness and the stigma worse. Assholes like this dude perpetuate that. So now I always comment when someone uses Bipolar and 99% of the time I am very calm but since I don't know…

Both my mom and my sister have it. My mom treats hers with medical marijuana and not prescription drugs, she seems happy and it seems like it's working so we're kind of ok this works for you, this works for me, but mine is worse and I live in a state where it's totally illegal so there's that. I don't really know how…

OK, so this is second hand, about my grandmother's run in with real life fame. My grandmother, a Cuban Abuela who has absolutely no filter and believes that everyone on earth is beholden to her every word because we are so terrified/love her to do otherwise, encounters real life Dustin Hoffman at Disney Land. She…

Nah, just a 'normal' brained guy who doesn't use what he has, acting like he's better than those of us who get by better than he does with different brains and better reasoning skill despite the stigmas ignorant douche canoes like him try to lay down on us.

They kept giving me antidepressants, and then I would feel SO much better, then I would throw the pills away because they came from 'the man', and soon become a twitching insomniac paranoid mess, they thought it was 'hypervigilance' of PTSD at first, until the last time I threw the meds away, and had a full blown…

All of this. I have some well meaning Buddhist-yoga-reiki-herbal wellness relatives that I love the shit out of, but holyohmygod you know what happens if I don't stay medicated and I get manic is *I* get on a spiritual quest, I believe all the the things they believe but with the added bonus of that I think I can hear…

Yes I agree. I've been on and off so many meds, suffered so many withdrawals, have to live my life around the side effects, and some douche canoe that probably takes heart or cholesterol or viagra medications sits there and dribbles out his mouth about meds. Let us all say a hearty Fuck You!

You said everything so right. I raised an extra finger to the sky in your honor. Keep fighting the good fight <3

Modern medicine exists for a reason. Unless it makes sense to start biting down on leather straps while we get our gangrene limbs sawed off with rusty tools again, I mean, modern medicine is such an easy way out...

OMFG these are the reasons why those of us with Bipolar, whom everybody wants to talk shit about going off our meds, we go off of our meds. I have been on my meds for a year. Then you get the other holistic shit-fucks who don't know what they're talking about shaming you for doing exactly what you're supposed to be…

I would tell the men who think I am too paranoid that if every one in three American women are raped, then who is doing the raping? One in three men? One, two, three... rapist. You get at least one in a grocery line with that logic. Unless it's less men who are more prolific doing the raping. But even that is no more…

I was raped by my best friend's husband/next door neighbor. Imagine the complications of that. The defense considered me very bad and naughty, I made that married man stray and then tried to ruin his family. Actually, I missed all the warning signs that he was probably about to get dangerous because I just assumed he…

We're so fucking metal

OH MY GODDESS FUCK YEAH!!! I watch their faces and feel the vindication that I will never feel because my rapists walked free... yes yes and yes. More of this. Put these fucks behind jail. You could see the incredulity in their eyes. That incredulity is the safety that men feel to rape women and never get convicted.…