This is an interesting question, Secretum... I think BlackPup is right, because, after all, "normals" are like this too. And they might be fighting something else (not MI), or not. And just plain natural personality differences -- the classic Type A (driven, structured), Type B (easy-going, less structured). (Heh, not to confuse the issue, because they use the A and B names too, but in a different way...) Personally, under their system, I'd generally fall into Type B (easy-going, pretty well float along), but it's definitely affected by the BP (far more driven when hypomanic). In big areas of my life, I definitely have learned helplessness. When first coming across this term, I thought, "wow, that sounds so insulting!". Then, looking it up - what it actually means -- it made perfect sense, and I relate to it in a big way. As an example... having launched from high school with what would look to anyone as big potential, and then getting knocked off the rails with BP... followed by constantly being whacked down (w/ BP or otherwise), it gets deeply ingrained after decades, you know? This makes therapy a real challenge. To say the least.

Oh! And just to confuse it further from your examples. I don't -- and have never -- expected people to do things for me, and don't consider my case mild. At all. So... not lazy. But I have essentially given up.

Which I guess is to say that I can't really answer your question in anything approaching a clear way(!)