I suppress my bipolar from myself, forget about the rest of the world. My daughter likes to point out my symptoms and my father who is ill, tells me I talk too fast. I did say tell him pressured speech was a symptom of bipolar. (My family knows, of course)

I don't tell anyone except my closest friends and they just think I am remarkably affective and outgoing. Works for me. I have been mostly unmedicated for 6 years, because of med side effects and mostly stable. But it does slip out, but most people don't know enough about the disorder to understand. I feel this is the way God made me, and he is the one that needs to know the most. Right?