I have been at Neurotalk for a while but never posted on the BP forum. I have BP, ADHD, an ED and Social Anxiety/Agoraphobia. There is a lot I could share but something horrible just happened to me so I will just get to the point.

For 13 years I've had a friend online. We both went thru infertility together years ago. However, when I got dxd with BP and told her, she flat out told me she didn't like people with mental illness- she told me they were flawed and freaks! Enough said. I'll leave it at that. She was angry that my DH and I adopted at the time and she couldn't. Then a year later she was able to have a child of her own. So, things were good in her life and then she contacted me again and started sending me Christmas cards every year- just to show me pictures of her son.

And, in every card she would ask me to e-mail her about my family and she would write back. I always would e-mail her. She never would back. Then she friended me on Facebook. Need I say anymore? Things have been the same since.

Usually I don't post much on my Facebook page. She always posts and is obnoxious and very brash about herself on her page- to the point where it is just disgusting. Last night I posted something really funny which received a lot of responses from tons of my friends and their friends. So, it must have got channeled to her page- then ticked her off.

Ending up with this result: She posted a very disgusting post about people with BP are bad, etc. I can't remember all the rest she said- but it was meant right at me- and I know it. She was always a vindictive person and when I knew her years ago, she dilberately would purposely hurt other peoples feelings to make herself feel better.

My self-esteem is bad enough. Dealing with BP is hard enough on its own. She is aware of that. Taking her crap over the years has been more than I can bare. So, this year if or when she sends another card over the holidays- I'm going to send it back -returned. At this point I feel like mailing her some mental health pamphlets just to really stick it to her. Maybe she would get the *&^%^% point!?

Sorry I'm angry. I've had a difficult time enough with my own mom being mean to me about the illness.

Coffeegirl