I'd imagine that the incredible pressure, stress, working hours and cutthroat competition of the kind of "Wall Street" career that you're contemplating would be a terrible trigger for your illness. You could spend years in school (and perhaps go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt) preparing to work for an I-bank, then burn out of the entire industry in your first eight months on the job after being activated into high-functioning and highly-motivated mania by the pressure and excitement, only to crash into a depression when the mania inevitably runs its course.

This happened to me working for Netscape in Silicon Valley with a breakdown that ended a lucrative career in corporate software. The glamour and riches of a high-stakes Wall Street (or Silicon Valley) career is great for those willing to make the necessary sacrifices, but you may have already learned enough about the limitations imposed on your life by your illness to know that certain aspirations are reasonably off-limits.

Sorry for sounding negative and not encouraging your aspirations, but with full-blown bipolar disorder, a long and expensive preparation for a brush with the real Wall Street could destroy you.

I'll soften my message by concluding with a to the BBC feeding a farting wombat.