I agree with this, the media is where most people get their "information." For some reason the media also seems to associate bipolar with serial killers, never really understood that one.

I'm still not a fan of changing words or using euphemisms. IMHO it doesn't help against racism and it won't help here. I will say that "behavioral health" is a stupid term that has all the wrong implications. Those are the sort of words that are worth changing. But I don't really see what's wrong with the word "bipolar", and I'm even fine with "manic depressive", for that matter.

In some cases all the euphemisms make it worse. It's like in some mental health facilities where they insist on calling people "clients" instead of "patients." I would rather just be called a patient because by going out of your way to use euphemisms, to me it just implies that there's something so shameful about the situation that we can't just call it what it is.