I have naturally dark brown hair that I bleached last night and dyed red, it looks…fine. I admit it was super impulsive and not my best idea and I have a history of making bad hair decisions during mania (went blonde, cut bangs straight across, etc) but my point is that other people get to make stupid decisions like this once in awhile and it doesn’t necessarily mean they qualify for a clinical diagnosis but because I have a bipolar 2 diagnosis my mental state is immediately called into question. My roommate looked at me like she was ready to call the freaking crisis team last night over some hair bleach. I’m literally just too broke to go to the salon and I wanted to do something new. I am pretty sure other young adults (i’m 25) have box dyed their hair and just been seen as quirky. So not fair that I don’t get to be quirky if people know about my diagnosis