There is a lot of bipolar on one side of my family and the family does laugh about it. My mother is to the point where she has lost her short term memory. The doctors keep wanting to treat the memory loss and ignore that she's in a deep depression with a strong family history of bipolar (all 3 siblings!). My dad frustrates me. I called and said I was just told I have it, take my mom back in and make them treat her! He argued with me that I didn't have bipolar because I wasn't suffering from a lack of sunlight. Then proceeded to tell me how I didn't act like my mother's "crazy" siblings. After all, the one just had "nerves" and the other came from "drugs". Of course, this is why I myself chose to study psychology!