You do a good job of outlining your problems. all too often, p-docs aren't really as up on the varients of some of the psychiatric disorders as they should be. It doesn't have to be a conspriacy, it's more an issue of not keeping up with speciallist research on individual areas. I was reevaluated recently by a neuripsychologist who told me that there are actually well over ten different discrete types of bipolar categories (groupings of symptomes) that include the presence or absence of some problems that some practicing psychiatrists believe rules out the presence of a bilpolar disorder, for example. Being able to sleep (even if not really feeling the need to) is one of them, and is something I could always do, and has always had my diagnosis questioned by psychiatrists.

I agree with Farmer girl. Keep looking, and remember, they can be a bit behind on their info, because not all the research is released to the general public and gets buried in various journals. But yeah, I all too often get the feeling they don't take us BiPos very seriously when we try to work with them.