Dont judge me

We come across this saying all the time in everyday life. But how many of us really really listened to it until we where diagnosed with BP or became more interested in the path of the Wiccan. Both of these hold such sterotypical ideals in the view of non followers or survivors. Both are victims of persecution from the misunderstandings of people who are too ignorant or scared to really look into what it means to be Bi Polar or Wiccan.
In fact fill a sports hall with a huge cross section of the population and try this experiment..ask the wiccans/pagans to raise their hands, ask them to keep them up if they are BP or suffer from other mental health issues and I can tell you now not many will lower their hands. then ask people who are BP etc to raise their hands, you will be amazed at how many will do so if they are being honest.

You will also find that we all look surprisingly normal, sound surprisingly normal, dont wear witchy pointy hats nor talk to ourselves or think we are god (well unless we are delusional in crisis). We are just like everyone else on the outside, you cut us we bleed, you hurt us we bruise and we have emotions too funnily enough. Yet the second we mention our way of life or illness we suddenly begin to feel like the lepers of society, people look at us differently whether they intend to or not and when we try to talk to them for support they have no clear ideas what to say because they dont walk our path. If someone breaks a bone you can ask them if their cast itches, when they go back to get it taken off and how they did it. When you suffer BP where can people start to learn...? We dont know how we got it, one day we where normal in our eyes the next we have an illness that in the worst extremes can kill us. It cant be operated on, they use mixtures of drugs that differ for each individual because it isnt a standard treat one treat all disease. You can't say you will get better because you can only say you are stable and yet still you feel lost isolated and alone becaues no one understands.
If it where a cancer they could cut it out, you could have treatment loose your hair and know the risk of things and people understand. WHY OH WHY cant they see that what we have is just as dangerous?
SO not only am I a survivor of BP gently nudging my way through life I am also a wiccan witch , now would you wak a mile in my shoes, live my life for a time and expeience things the way I do......? I very much doubt it , for you see you have already judged me.