You have no obligation to discuss your illness with others; that's one point. The other is that if you choose to disclose your illness, you need to know the person
very well and know that he/she is intelligent enough to manage that knowledge with
discretion and compassion.

It's tied closely with taste, in my view. I discuss it here because it's an effort to
help others manage what they see as problems. I don't discuss it in social situations
or with people who I know haven't enough savvy to know what it's all about and
how to handle it with a bit of class.

The only illness I would want to be alert to in another is a psychopathic personality disorder. That one's dangerous and it carries a huge amount of pain for the victim. Even the best of people are deceived about it, but if you've ever had occasion to have to deal with one, you'll recognize it in another for ever after. It may take a while to detect it, but you'll understand it soon enough.

You are being treated for your illness and that makes you less likely to be a risk for injuring yourself or others than the 97% of bipolar people who never seek help for their illness. And unlike the bipolar patient, the psychopath never benefits from psychotherapy. He/she just gets more cunning in the ability to deceive, cheat, lie, steal, etc. There is no moral sense within them. Some of them are the serial murderers, and they just continue to live ineffective lives. That's not true of bipolar illness, particularly if one is treated for the chemical imbalance.

Please just live by your deepest inner principles and you'll be fine. Respect yourself
and others whom you can, live well, and be gentle. You'll be fine.