Thanks for responding Laurau! I agree it's hard to know when it's the "right" time to tell someone about the diagnosis. My experience has been that I told too soon for my comfort. I value honesty and felt that if I didn't tell right away I was hiding something. I'm now looking at it from a different perspective that it's not necessary to tell about my diagnosis at the beginning of a relationship. Certainly I would tell before we became intimate, but I would wait until I was comfortable.

As far as dating what I also experienced on 2 occasions is the guy I was dating told me about his "crazy ex-girlfriend who MUST have been bipolar". I was like see ya dude!