Ask her this question. What was the most dreadful day that you can remember in your life? Was it the loss of your first love or a death of someone, or maybe losing a job you had put everything into and got fired etc. If she can give you an answer tell her...that is how it feels suffering from bi-polar. Our emotions can take us down to the darkest place in our mind imaginable. Get her to talk about her dreadful day, she must have at least one....hell every one does. Get her to "remember" the feelings she had and tell her.....multiply that by....say 10. Tell her that is how your feelings are when YOU are down because bi-polar enables our brains to produce that magical chemical to help us "get over it" as so called "normal" ppl do.

I hope that helps. Man.....I don't know how I said that. Just happened.