It's the same with my pdoc and me. We hardly ever talk about the bipolar itself---it's been well-established that I have it---but we do talk a lot about how to manage everyday life and the inevitable crises that arise in its course. It's when everything falls apart and I lose my s##t that we actually discuss the particulars of the disease. I forget sometimes that it doesn't always take a catalyst for it to flare up, and those episodes tend to take me by surprise. That's when my pdoc has to remind me that yes, I have an illness and it causes that to happen sometimes.