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How bipolar stigma makes you hide normal emotions

I can't tell my friends about my diagnosis because they'll start treating every emotion I have like a symptom.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Diagnostic labels can invalidate the full range of human emotional experience in social contexts.

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