I've been around here long enough to know that bipolar is experienced differently by everyone who has it, thus the questions and answers---though similar---will also be different. A lot of folks here who have been diagnosed for a long time may see more similarity than someone like me, as I got my dx only 16 months ago, but most of us are pretty good at being patient with newbies because we've all been there.

Newly diagnosed, upset, confused, angry, sad, grieving for the person we thought we were.....all this and more have been experienced by the people here. Don't worry about asking something we may have heard before, because it's new to YOU and that's what matters.