<span itemprop="author">Sonja Wasden

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I bought into the stigmas about the mentally ill, until I became one of them

The first thing someone says when I tell them I have bipolar, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder is, “I’m sorry.” For a long time, I was sorry too. Bipolar runs in my family, so I knew the harsh realities of this untreated ill…