siljie, what an appalling idiot your "friend" is... Imagine deliberatly lying about suffering from bipolar, and pretending you were on lithium! You're not still friends with this appalling booby are you?

dragonfly... I never thought of it, but you're right, the term "manic depressive" doesn't seem to lend itself to media idiocy so much as bipolar. Perhaps we should go back to it. Also, I must admit that I cackled with evil laughter at the thought of breaking people's legs, and saying, "come on, you're not trying... of course you can walk..." I am of course evil. Thanks for tempting my inner evil!

(Not of course that I'm planning on killing anyone, just that I appreciate the joke.)