Our close family friend I suspect has bipolar. Honestly I'd bet everything I own he has bipolar. He struggles so much and is so understand. he has found a niche that keeps him sheltered and fed no matter what and uses his (hypo)mania to the max. His personal life and finances are a wreck but when I say I'm getting sick he asks which way.

My husbands other close friends are DX. OCD, and depressed. We often joke people without MI are to boring for us.

As far as my family they won't receive help because " everyone that walks into a psychiatrists office receives a bipolar DX." No, we're just all bipolar.