You and Elsa? What about me? Oh, I haven't quite "gone there" yet.

I looked up "personality" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Of course there are a million definitions from: a famous person; to a quality that distinguishes humans from animals.

The most applicable definition for this conversation is, "The quality or collection of qualities which makes a person a distinctive individual; the distinctive personal or individual character of a person, esp. of a marked or unusual kind."

Based on this definition alone, I am bipolar. These are not just moods, they are personalities.

There's the hypomanic, hypersexual, paranoid, reclusive me. There's also a less hypomanic very outgoing and talkative and wacky me. There's this weird mixed state, which is a very talkative outgoing but kind of dark and out of it me. There's also this guy who will come home from work sometimes, for weeks at a time, throw his keys on the coffee table and go get in bed. Sometimes I sleep 2 hours, sometimes I sleep 20.

Then there's the stable me, which is this weird, hyper-rational mix of all of the above.

Again, these are not moods, they are distinct personalities. If I met a different individual only one time when in any of these states, they would each describe a completely different person. They would describe different versions of what they think my life is like, and they would have completely different ideas of who they thought I really was at the core, as a person. My personality.