This is the best information about bipolar I've ever found.

http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=med...central%2Ehtml

But I don't agree with all of it. I also agree with what Akama just said....

But people in the field have all different views. Some are more like my therapist, where everything has some emotional component to it (psychoanalytic), where as the MD in the link seems to prefer the biological take on it. There might be a medium in between. Who knows. It's good to ask these questions and look out for yourself.