Great article! Thanks Venus. I have my own reasons for not concidering myself ill. 1 being that that is such a hopeless way for me to percieve myself, and I REFUSE to give bipolar any more power than it already has. Outlook and attitude does way more than we give it credit for, but alot of people misunderstand and think you mean it automatically fixes everything if you're positive, so they don't even try. And 2, nobody can point at my illness, how do they know I'm even ill? Maybe they're ill, and I'm normal! it's not an easy path, sometimes it's downright torture! And maybe i don't even see it as a gift, but I'm a better humanbeing for it, that's for sure...