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How to tell my family I have bipolar disorder?

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I was diagnosed yesterday with mixed bipolar and it explains so much about the last 20 years of my life. But now I am wondering what's the best way to explain to my mother. She is overprotective and worries about me a lot even though I'm in my mid-thirties. I don't want to scare the crap out of her (my family likes to pretend we don't have these problems) but her support is really important to me.

Any advice?