EASTENDERS - EASTENDERS COMPLAINTS SOAR

I suffer from bi-polar and have done for 12 years and looking at the eastenders caused me to become upset i feel that although the portrayal of Gene is not everyones experience it does however contain alot of chillingly real examples of how bi-polar can and does affect sufferers. The condition has pushed me and my family to the limit but that aside I have a loving wife and a great son and have been running my own business for 14 years so you can live a realatively normal life as long as you respect the condition

Will someone please do some proper research on BiPolar Disorder and stop making such derogatory comments about Stacey's mother who supposedly suffers from this disorder. You are making many genuine sufferers angry and unhappy. This is a very painful disor der for sufferers who do not ask to be ill and most of them are not stupid or mad or demented. They can suffer in different ways and often have long periods of remission when they are perfectly well and the disorder can be controlled by proper medication. It is the portrayals of the disorder such as you are showing that creates the stigma attached to an illness which is caused by chemical imbalances in the body. Would you try and ridicule diabetic or epileptic people in the same way? These people need const ant regulation and meciation to keep them well yet they receive public sympathy. Yes you may hear of a bi-polar person being involved in a crime or indicretion occasionally but that is the only time that their condition is highlighted and they are in the minority. Most the the crime and indiscretion in this Country is down to so called 'normal' members of the population. If you cannot portray the condition in a positive manner then keep away from the subject.