I am Bipolar ~ STOP calling me crazy.

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I am done with people using that word so freely around me. I use it for myself because I like being wacky and goofy and silly, so that’s the crazy I call myself. But that’s not how others mean it. So if you were to describe me to someone and say I’m crazy, you’re making fun of my disability, my disorder. Your meaning, society’s meaning of crazy is not the same as mine.

I like my kind of crazy, but that’s not what you mean when you say I’m crazy. I have to now stop using that word to describe myself as society now defines mental disorders with the derogatory meaning of ‘crazy’. I’m sick of it. It’s wrong, it’s hurtful and it is demeaning, reducing my own value and worth.

Published by Calypso

Just a wandering messy soul trying to navigate the distorted worlds of my mind, body, heart, soul and spirit. Sometimes by sight, sometimes by sounds, sometimes by feel, sometimes even by smell and taste.. and sometimes by all or none. I actually have no intention of “publishing” this or share with any need for acceptance, understanding, insight… Just getting it out. Just letting it come out. I experience and express life through words, the written word. Somehow the chaos of my mind is able to grab and sort the letters swirling around and place them in some order. And this is how I find … my distorted clarity.

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