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I understand your frustration, but using the terms "bipolar" and "psycho" (especially together) to describe someone who is difficult or just generally sucks, and is actually not medically either of those things, is super offensive to those who do have those conditions. Bipolar is an incredibly debilitating disease that makes it impossible to have normal life functions for so many people. Calling someone "bipolar" is about the same as calling someone a "retard."
Someone very close to me is diagnosed bipolar and controls it with medication and is the nicest, most even-keeled person I have ever met. If you didn't know he was BP, you would never have the slightest clue.
Sorry, this sounds way more lecturey than I had intended, but I just wanted to say why it's offensive because I'm sure you probably didn't even think about it, let alone mean it that way.
@PM1 Save the virtue signaling for ur facebook wall.
Or, I dunno, maybe you could have some tact and not offend and marginalize an entire group of people who can't help the disease they're burdened with by trying to make it acceptable to casually use their disease to label people you don't like. 🤔
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^ fair point, I did not mean to use it that way to offend. But based on the signals, what if they are actually bipolar? I have a problem with people who have conditions that can affect work and don't let others know. It's not my business, but if you're pregnant you wouldn't hide it even as your water breaks in the office. There are conditions one should disclose and one should not based on the context. Like someone having a STD is not necessary to know about at work, but maybe if you're in a relationship with them, it is. I can't empathize if I dont know what's going on. I won't judge people for it if they said something, but I will judge if this behavior can't be explained by anything. Otherwise let's give all the assholes a pass because maybe they are or aren't bipolar.
Bipolar people don't tend to just present as assholes. Sure, bipolar people can be assholes just like everyone else can, but that's not an across-the-board symptom of bipolar disorder. It must have been mentioned by someone in another thread because I don't see it here, but bipolar is typically characterized by cyclically long periods (i.e. many days or weeks, not hours) of mania alternating with long periods of depression.
If someone is just a mood-swinging dick and the root cause is a mental illness, it's far far more likely to be borderline personality disorder aka BPD.
@MS1, OP is assuming person has bipolar. Person was not diagnosed. So calling person bipolar is offensive. Same as calling someone who does stupid things retarded.
I'm not discounting that there are unmedicated bipolar people who are wrecking-balling people's lives (I experience this first-hand and definitely not giving anyone a pass for it!), but that doesn't justify using a medical condition as a derogatory term for someone. OP gets that (per OP's last response).
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Or, you know, there at bipolar people who don’t take their meds as they should because they “feel just fine” who ruin people’s lives and families with their manic insanity and irrational behavior, so calling someone a bipolar psycho is not only accurate but totally fair, because fuck those people for refusing to help themselves after years of people trying to help them and tell them how their shitty behavior is screwing up not only themselves but those around them as well.