Hello
I was watching s great documentary by British comedian, actor and author, Stephen Fry. It can be seen on youtube and is called Stephen Fry : The Secret Life of a Manic Depressant.

In the documentary he explains that although he was from a wealthy family in his late teens he had a loss of impulse control and stole credit cards off friends and family. Then he went on big shopping sprees.

He is just one of many examples of hiterto honest, reliable people, a good citizen, who did something criminal without needing to.

Do the symptoms of bipolar, such a loss of any sense of reality, lack of impulse control, a tital lack of judgement etc cause the person to do immoral, inappropriate and even illegal thins or is it the person's character or personalit ?