I agree with not diagnosing her and telling her she's bipolar. You never know how someone will take it and usually, when someone tells you that you're not "normal", it pisses you off. She might be bipolar. She might not be.

I suspected I was but it was really a scary thing to have someone else say it out loud. And when my pdoc did...it was shocking. I thought for a while before getting the diagnosis I was just a b i t c h. Seriously. I even told my pdoc and told him that one of my biggest fears is that I was just a b i t c h.

Oh and agree on the xanax. My pdoc won't even prescribe it unless absolutely necessary. He feels like it's way too addictive and loses its effect so quickly (meaning you have to take more and more to get the same results).