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Scott was watching TV while getting ready for work a couple months ago and happened to stop on the Today show when they introduced Carrie Fisher (Princess Leah from Star Wars).  Among other things she spoke about being bipolar.  I loved hearing her speak about bipolar because we share a lot of the same views.

She talked about the stigma of bipolar and said she didn’t understand it because to live with bipolar “takes balls”.  Amen to that sister.  Why should I be ashamed of people knowing I’m bipolar when I’m living a functioning, adult life?  Sure I have my hiccups and my bad days but I’m taking care of my husband and raising three healthy, happy children.  What more could you ask for?

Matt asked Carrie about bipolar being a daily struggle and I feel like my last episode is still so fresh and raw that I do deal with it every day.  Every little change in my body sets off alarms that make me hyper vigilant to what’s going on in my body.  So I’m not changing from manic to depressed on a daily basis but I do deal with bipolar daily.

How beautiful is it that she describes bipolar as the weather.  As moods that happen independent of the person feeling them.  They just come on and you have to deal with them even though they are not who you are or necessarily how you are feeling.

It took me weeks to get this video off of my Tivo and formatted right so YouTube would play it correctly.  I really wanted to share this with you because it spoke to me.  Mostly because I saw someone else who wasn’t ashamed of being bipolar.  My gosh, we didn’t ask for this but we sure as heck are doing the best we can.  What is there to ashamed of?