The other day I was at my clinic for my monthly check up for my disorder. They take blood... see your mood chart.. and you talk about what you been struggling with that month. I have seen this man a few times during my visits waiting in the clinic. He throws fits because he has to wait. He stomps around like a baby.. raising his voice complaining and bitching and demands the nurses to put him first with a threat that if they don't he will be uncontrollable because he is bipolar. What bull.... the guy is plain and simple and jerk. He tosses the term bipolar around as an excuse to scare people, get his way and bully. A bipolar fight/flight response is about survival.. not being a loud obnoxious jerk. ---------------------------------- At a different clinic I have seen this mother and her 14 yr old in the waiting room. The boy regularly does not listen.. he is bouncing everywhere.. mocking his mother.. driving the front desk nuts. The mother talks to others waiting always saying "Oh well, nothing I can do he is bipolar.. he just needs new medication. Bull! his constant misbehaving has nothing to do with being bipolar. The medication is not going to fix his behavior. ---------------------------------- I have ran into many in the past and even now on the internet who throw around the term 'Bipolar' like it is the IN thing. A fad. Self diagnosing, claiming to be to fit in, trying to question others whether they have the illness or not... yet at the same time know nothing about the illness. It's just like with any group of people. When you meet someone suffering with the same illness as yourself you NEVER play this are you really? crap. You know! It makes me upset because it is people like this who give the illness a bad name. You have all these immature people running around self diagnosing, self promoting for attention... all the while.. the real people suffering sit quietly trying to stay as normal and focused as they can. Some trying everything in their power not to let the world know they are ill. ---------------------------------- People with genuine 'Bipolar' DO NOT * viciously spend their hours attacking peoples - Abuser * go out of their ways to bully, smear and try to scare people - Abuser * they don't go out of their way to be asses - Abusive Narcisst People with genuine 'Bipolar' DO/ARE * the most coolest people you would ever meet * they are extremely creative and smart * majority of the time their whole world, thought and energy is spent on staying leveled * day to day it is all about them...the only goal is to make it through the day * spend most of your day trying to keep your thoughts together and to remember things * spend time trying to plan ways to fight the darkness There is a difference between being Bipolar and just a plain A$$hole.