A lot of the things I love about my personality are traits or symptoms of being bipolar. It would be so nice to be able to have the hypomania but get rid of the full blown mania and depression. I would get so much done. I mean, of course all of us would miss those things about ourselves, but that's because it's already here. But the "normal" people probably don't feel like they're missing out on anything. I think the fact that we can't pick and choose which parts of it we have means it's definitely a disorder. It interferes with our lives. Medication can help control the bad parts. Unfortunately it takes away some of the good parts too, which I struggle with, when the medication makes me feel dull and uninteresting. But the trade off is usually worth it. I don't think personality is treatable, but bipolar is. So I vote for disorder.