All these question threads lately got me thinking about this. We are described as bipolar because sometimes we are depressed and sometimes manic, or for type IIs like myself, hypomanic. Those are our two poles, right?

Except the anxiety/paranoia isn't really either of those and it seems like most of us experience some beyond what is neurotypical. Dissociation? OK, maybe a little. Delusions? Sometimes. Substance abuse? I'm all over that. Attention deficit? Can you repeat that last question? I don't hallucinate but many of us do. Is there anything that isn't common?

Bipolar is the cafeteria style mental disorder.