Lexi Finally Embraces Her Bipolar Disorder and Tells a Friend | Modern Love | Prime Video

After reflecting on how her experience with bipolar disorder has impacted her life, Lexi (Anne Hathaway) decides it’s time to start embracing it. Watch Modern Love on Prime Video.

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[lavender]

I wish someone would see me the way she sees Lexi. Just one person.

[NattyByNature-]

This is the best bipolar depiction I’ve ever seen.

[riina___]

I'm bipolar and told my previous employer to avoid miscommunication, instead they stopped giving me projects cause they couldn't trust me anymore. Never again.

[juliamiller]

I strive to be this friend. You feeling low? Like you can barely move or function? Honey, I will show up at your place, roll you up in a blanket burrito, feed you snacks, and clean your place. I have my own mental issues, and I know that it’s not the lows that get to you. It’s the loneliness. The feeling like no one cares.

[chocoberrybunny]

I wish we all have one friend like her.

[ClaudeS]

I’ve seen Anne Hathaway in so many roles, this one was my favorite of hers. So well done 👌🏻

[MwelwaOnCos]

This episode has been a life saver for me. Helps me explain whats going on with me. bipolar is hard to explain

[davidwagstaff]

I have a similar experience. I know my mental illness has caused me to be cold, unthiightful, rash, far too emotional, lows and highs, and I couldn't cope. I decided to be upfront about this with my latest partner. I broke down, several times, and she said she'd fix me, and will be there holding my hand to keep me from being consumed by the lows. It DOES feel like an elephant has taken its foot off your chest. You feel seen. Fully seen. And it's okay. Someone actually is willing to accept you, all of you. We split up after 6 weeks because it turned out they were all just words people say because they do not realise how bad it gets 😔

[islandia]

Just remember, my fellow SMI peeps: the initial understanding response from employers and friends WILL evolve into some people you’ve disclosed to using your diagnosis against you when it suits their agenda.

You will be gaslit and shouldered with the entirety of the blame that should be a shared interpersonal
responsibility. Your diagnosis will be a get out of jail free card for the toxic behaviours of others.

It’s a matter of weeding out the right people from that point forward and surrounding yourself with people who see your humanity and truly have your back. Don’t do what Anne did at the end and go around telling everyone you’ve ever met. That’s not realistic.

[dancole]

It's important to find an open-minded leader, not a self-centred boss. Even if it's family or friends, talk to the right person and they will be in the mud with you and help where they can, encouraging the best in you and seek to understand your uniqueness. Talk to the wrong person and they will make you feel much worse and you will be twice as afraid to open up.

[kkNORWAY]

This remind me of my own life. I was afrade to tell my boss that I was Bipolar, and how they would react, but I still choose to say it, guess what, it was not like how I expect it, they where so understanding and caring and supportive. Bipolar people often talking us self down, and we often think we are a burden to the outside world, but thats something we think about us self, in reality more people understand us than judge us, I have experience that, very FEW people have reacted negative when I have told it, most have reacted by friendlyness and understanding, we blame us self too easy😢💙❤️

[THEMOCU]

sweet!! i remember the time i told a friend and they called me a sociopath!

[ThePimmy]

I'm not buying that line, that telling someone for the first time felt in anyway a relief. It's when she didn't flee upon hearing that feels good. The telling is like king Kong just grabbed you and started squeezing.

[princepeterwolf]

She's such an incredible actress, and she's always involved in really interesting projects!

[dee]

The very first time I watched this(beginning of the pandemic, didn't know what this was abt and randomly started binging) I felt like someone could see through me and I was crying the whole day non stop, it was very overwhelming and i still haven't met a professional because each time I was close to seeing one, I feel like a imposter and feel shameful towards myself, blame myself for imagining things, but ya watching this was sucha revelation

[alainaval]

What an absolutely INCREDIBLE scene. Wow! Starting this show immediately.

[mrs.valenzuela]

Me too. This is heartfelt, but also unreal, people leave me and I’m treated differently.

[DeathAtAFuneral]

IF my life is upside down lost so many friends over it / girlfriend and no one wants to stay around it.... i understand it i just wish i had someone there but i know if i was them I WOULD NOT... want to be around me, its fair but hurts

[jameswilkerson]

Interesting that what prompted her to admit her diagnosis was trying to e plain her romantic history

[esatdergi]

I wish I could be accepted like this. tears.