Personally, I think we should go back to calling the illness "manic depression". At least that's a little more of an accurate description and you don't typically hear people calling nonsense like the weather "manic depressive". And people who say we're not "strong enough" if we need meds, or get sick...grrrrr....not that I wish ill upon people, but sometimes it would be nice if they were somehow sick and could hear things like, "you're not trying hard enough to make your own insulin" or "what do you mean you can't walk on your broken leg? Get off your butt and pull yourself together!".... yeah.....