Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own.

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.