I am blessed with awesome siblings but something I never expected happened. We’re scattered around the country but we text throughout everyday, zoom once a week (5 of us) and I was thrilled to share my diagnoses of bipolar1 and how the diagnoses ties so many things together. I requested an extra zoom, to give them a full update etc.
I never expected to receive NO RESPONSES, NO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. I was truly gobsmacked. They are aware of my other travails and successes. Perhaps the #stigmaofbipolar1 is altering their attitudes. Not knowing what each sibling is thinking/feeling is totally foreign. I don’t actually feel sad, knowing how wonderful they are, but, after feeling ‘ghosted’ I texted that I cannot presume what I think their level of (—insert any appropriate word here) will be. True Acceptance is the key