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It's funny because the ADHD subreddit is memes and upvotes and people talking about how ADHD hurts their performance at work.
The bipolar subreddit is people who want to kill themselves. People who are homeless. People who are broken, have lost their spouses, jobs, lives.
And ADHD gets so much sympathy. It's a mental illness that's so socially acceptable that people talk about it at work. Compare and contrast that to bipolar where you carry a stigma wherever you go. It's nuts.
Having Bipolar disorder often leads to drug and alcohol addiction trying to cope with it, and also creates much more problems in dealing with other people on its own even without adding chemical dependency into the mix. It's a horrible condition to have, and even though I empathize with people who have it, in my experience they can also be incredibly difficult to be around because of their illness. Which is one of the reasons it's such a fucked up thing. It's self-perpetuating isolation.
I can't speak about work but when it comes to upvotes it's most probably because people can relate to most of the stuff because it's stuff that other people also do but ADHD makes them much much more frequent and uncontrollable.