Welcome to psych central! I think you will like the freedom to be yourself here.

I agree with Miquel's Mom.

I will add - I think of bipolar as enhancing the existing personality. The diagnosis is not an excuse to act out. I am glad you were embarrassed, that feeling will drive you to want to control aggressive behavior. I think that is why we have some shaming emotions like embarrassment, and guilt. To help guide us to living a more balanced life.

I don't want to scare you, but having bp can be difficult on relationships because displaying our emotions is more common and can happen at inconvenient times. Sometimes people don't want to know what is going on, and bp forces honesty eventually. It doesn't like to be contained.

In my opinion (and I have a lot of them). lol