I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out which parts of "me" are my personality and which parts are pathology. Where I used to live the doctors had convinced me that most of my personality and behaviors were abnormal and representative of hypomanic/manic episodes, but where I am currently they were convinced that the stuff that seemed so weird to the last group of doctors is mostly acceptable. They weren't convinced I was even bipolar until this current episode.
People used to think I was on (recreational) drugs all the time when I was sober...so I don't know what I'm supposed to be like.