Just yesterday I had an excellent physician ask me if Bipolar makes things awful to
deal with--he's a great guy, by the way--and I responded, "No, no, it doesn't get in
my way".

People can understand that, and as for getting in our way, that's the thing we
manage well, in my view, for the most part.

Much of this is lies in how we see it. Those who have never experienced bipolar illness
cannot understand its giftedness. There's no need to ever try to justify it to anyone,
in my view.

And you know what I think of "stigma". Forget that! We live in the 21st century, not
the dark ages.