My stance is much like yours. I say AM bipolar, not have. 1 reason why, well they cant detect it in my body, I didnt catch it... You get the picture, the other reason is this. I find it much easier to swim with the current, as opposed to against it, trying to fight it. Trying to seperate the bp from me is way too foreign for me to fathom,it has shaped me and my relationships from early on & it being a part of me, is just much easier to deal with. Bp is just 1 of the dimensions of what makes me me...