I've been watching this show since I was a little kid, and now I watch the Canadian episode on YouTube because Canada is one day ahead of the USA.

Sharon Newman was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in today's (11/13/12) episode, which won't be shown until tomorrow (11/14/12) in the USA.

This character has been having some problems for a while and is now hiding out in a cottage on property owned by one of her ex-husbands. The weird thing about it is she is dressed cute and has her hair and makeup done each time they show her.

I don't know about you folks, but when I'm depressed I have no interest in or desire to put on makeup or do my hair.

If I happened to have makeup on the day before, the remnants of the makeup are still on me the next day, quite obvious by the smeared eyeliner and mascara making the skin around my eyes dark.

Otherwise, there is no makeup on my face and my hair is in a dirty ponytail.

You can usually tell if I'm feeling better because I have makeup on and I've done my hair.

As for how the show is dealing with bipolar, they have been pretty vague so far with how the character's behavior equals bipolar.

The psychiatrist brought her a bottle of pills today. Sharon said she didn't want to take them because they could take away everything that makes her Sharon.

The psychiatrist said something like, "Which is better? To be stabilized or continue suffering from such mood swings?" Sounds like what mine said to me when I told him I didn't like the way my meds made me feel.

They had her young daughter jump out of her arms and run to someone else when Sharon started talking really fast, asking her how she was doing. Seemed like over-acting to me, like they told her to talk really fast because that means you're bipolar, even though the character wasn't acting that way in the previous scene with the psychiatrist. Talk about rapid-cycling.