Thanks for the thread. This isn't a term I've heard before. I thought I knew all there was to know about Bipolar, but it looks like that wasn't the case.

I believe I could be considered one of these people. I have two Canadian university degrees, a college diploma, married, home-owner, and am fairly successful in my field. The catch for me is I'd probably be considered in the range of genius, and so in a lot of respects I believe my intellect kind of.. overrides the worst parts of my Bipolar. I get anxious, depressed, paranoid semi-regularly, but my mind does a pretty good job of smacking the problems back down.

Yea I know it's not kosher to mention your intellect, but I'm slowly learning that this aspect is central to my experience with Bipolar. I also believe I experience hyper-sensitivity which is like being an introvert on steroids. So I spend a lot of time alone.

To cope with the above I don't drink alcohol, am on my way to cutting out caffeine completely, exercise regularly, and eat a pretty pristine diet. All of that helps a lot, but beneath it all my life is still challenging, and painful.

Actually, things have been so smooth (relatively) for so long that I'd kind of lost touch with the fact that I have Bipolar, and recently questioned if I might actually be less healthy than I classically believed. Read: I'm so good at wearing the mask that I started fooling myself. But I think this thread might be the spur that gets me thinking about improvements again.

On the bright side, having a high IQ has allowed for perspective that I believe not a lot of people have, so it's not all cloudy days.