I was talking to my daughter last nite on the phone, shes has BP I with Psychotic features also. We had been talking over an hour and neither of us so much as mentioned Bipolar.

Eventually we said hows your BP, she said Eh fine ,Hows your Bipolar I said Eh fine.

I am not discounting anyones personal journey with Bipolar not at all.
I do remember at first being diagnosed and I micro managed and analyzed every change in my mood to the max.

But ....

I have a right to wake up in a lousy mood and it not be Bipolar. I have a right to just feel blah and sad somedays.. Why ? because I am human.

I don't know maybe this makes no sense, I just think there are many others out there that have this mindset.

Bipolar or any illness for that matter can consume a life, and that is a shame.

Anyway , just ramblings out of my caffeine infused mind