I don't consider myself to "be" bipolar. It isn't who I am it is something I experience, yes, I know the debates go on but, for my own self identity, I'm not bipolar, who I am experiences it. Is it an illness? Crazy? I don't know. I know sometimes I am crazy, but maybe I need to question that idea.

I struggled a lot with stigma and most of it was self imposed. I do my best to stop labeling myself since I became aware of how my perceptions were affecting me. I like the term mood disorder.

Bipolar is something like fire to a moth.