You Probably Don't Have Bipolar Disorder (Or One Of These 7 Other Conditions)
Posted: 01/02/2014 8:42 am EST | Updated: 01/03/2014 5:58 pm EST
Severe depression, extreme irritability, over-exuberance: possible symptoms of bipolar disorder. Dying your hair and then missing the old color? Not bipolar disorder.
Which is why Kylie Jenner's tweet saying as much was met with understandable backlash.
We were glad to see that Twitter users criticized her blasé misappropriation of such a serious mental illness. Bipolar disorder is all too commonly used in this way (read: not medically diagnosed), which not only minimizes the severity of actual symptoms, but also belittles the people who live with bipolar disorder every day.
Bipolar disorder is just one of many diagnoses we'd like everyone to stop misusing. Here are a few of what we've deemed the greatest offenders.
Read the full article at the Huffington Post
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/02/diagnoses-health-problems-stop-saying_n_4469035.html)