Labels seem to be a way to assign meaning to ones quirks. They can also be used to indicate them vs. us. They, many times, are not useful to me...but when you are "handed" a label...there is a digestive process that requires time and introspection before either accepting/assigning or refuting said label. Either way, the core and the content remain unchanged in the presence/absence of the label.

At this point I AM bipolar because I view it as something to ponder and to wrap my mind around. At some point the I suspect I will just accept me as me with or without bipolar/brown hair/fill in the blank. I guess it is a process of integration? I don't know...