I just received a great email from a reader who has been on the bipolarhappens.com mailing list for years.
I once wrote a newsletter for family members that started out with a conversation my mother and I had about cabbage. I told the story to show how family members have to be educated as to why those of us with bipolar disorder can be so WEIRD! Here is his letter- the cabbage story follows.
Hi Julie:
This really isn’t a question but rather a comment regarding a piece you wrote about fixing dinner with your mother one night. You were making a salad and your mom suggested adding cabbage. As I recall you said it was just too difficult to get it out of the refrigerator and cut it, etc. Your mother said something like “what’s so hard about that?” and you said, I think, “I have bi polar.” Enough said!!
Ever since then every [ Read More ]

