Animaniac:
Thought a lot of us had stories like that. Maybe it's a good idea to blog about it, I was appalled to read that the psychiatrist would say bipolar is overdiagnosed (WHAT`??). When in fact, most of us have not been diagnosed yet, and there will always be a certain amount of the population with bipolar. But you didn't mention her name in the article? Frankly, I'm so frustrated I'm thinking about doing that.
My psychiatrist did the same thing with asking me the same things over and over - he spelled my name wronly and did not even remember where I lived after 2 years of counseling.
Yours - like mine - sounded like she didn't take your illness seriously at all. Mine thought it came from the milieu - my parents - and made the relationship with them tough for a while. It had nothing to do with them - they were so supportive and of course it's genetic.

Thank you for posting.