I guess I'm lucky, I never feel like the people in my life attribute everything I do to bipolar disorder. My doctors, too, are ready to find the real reason something is happening instead of labelling it bipolar.

I don't think bipolar is the worst diagnosis to have. I've known people with borderline personality disorder and it's horrible the way they're treated, like everything is a manipulation, that they're difficult and manipulative. Their doctors basically stopped listening to them. One of them even got turned away at the ER when she was suicidal.