YES! I'm so glad you started this. I think about this often. Just yesterday I was pondering it again. It was this thought that kept me away from trying meds for so long until I had to see that it was real. That I couldn't control it. And you know what even if I was making it up I needed help anyway.

And ya know what makes me realize it is real sometimes is coming here and realizing that it just can't be possible that all of us from all over the place not even knowing eachother could be making up the same ****. It just can't be true.

Either we are ALL making it up or we all do and say and feel the same kind of stuff from the same "disorder" the doctors have collectively decided to call Bipolar for the moment.