Drives me up the wall when undiagnosed people just say oh I have bipolar but I learned to live with it, its not that hard why cant you? When they exhibit NO symptoms besides being happy or sad or the range of normal human emotions. They just think happy means manic and sad means depressed ummm no. **** wits.

And then there are those who have had one session with a pdoc and the pdoc might mention BP and all of a sudden the patient decides they are full blown bipolar for a few years, messes with meds, then in the end finds out it was a misdiagnosis and symptoms were caused by meds. It saddens me to see so many like that on this forum.

But back to the topic, yes it really really irritates me when people say they are bipolar when they are not. When you really have bipolar it is serious.