I guess I would have to agree that the few and far between times I get happy hypo/manic would have to be one of the better things about it... at least the feelings that come with it. I am one of those people, however, who sets out to get a lot done but in the end rarely accomplishes anything due to my super short attention span. The hypersexuality is pretty fun too - though my meds have pretty much done away with them both for now.

I understand these people who are saying there is nothing fun about it, and all that, but I just can't view it that way. I have a pretty twisted sense of humor and must find the humor in even the most messed up of things in order to cope, so despite the torture of depression and mixed episodes, I have to be able to laugh at myself in order to get by.

I have to agree that empathy, though a natural aspect of my personality, has been increased with the illness. Meaning that we can better relate to other mentally ill people and though we may not be able to fully understand what, say a person with SZ or DID is going through, we are less likely to make rash judgments and ignore them if we ever find ourselves in conversation with them because we understand that they, like ourselves, are ill and we accept that as opposed to laugh at them or run away in fear.
One of my best friends has BPD and I really feel that it was our illnesses that brought us closer together and allowed us to understand each other better than a lot of our other friends did. Because we had that empathy towards each other.