Just (very) curious, what is your (exact) diagnosis, if you don't mind telling?

Raspberrytorte, since you are diagnosed SZA/BP, do you suffer most from delusions or hallucinations?

Sorry for all these specific questions, but I am really curious whether we can find some way to find certain BP subgroups by phenotypical and genotypical characteristics. Brain lateralisation would be a nice biological marker, possibly related to only a few genotypes or maybe just one.

Such research is best done in a naturalistic way, because quantitative studies with lots of people with BP are many times inconclusive. We know there is something going on, some heterogeneity, but it is mostly just a costly guessing game. And very slow.

Just guessing in a more natural setting (ok, this begins to sound like a freak show : sorry, that's just science), using some intuition and quick backtracking, might just help us find some real causes for BP (apart from the psychological and drug or alcohol addictions, which nicely divide BP in three subgroups, already).

It's just like evolution: sometimes you just need a God doing some rough sketches before going forward. Saves time. Saves lives. Hopefully (many) lives of people with BP, everyone helping with the search.

I might seem manically zealous, but I really am not. We need to survive and thrive (ok, I am also influenced by the thread on hibernating human subspecies and evolution).