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Bipolar disorder - Overview - Revolution Health: Nov 24, 2007 8:33am 4 reviews bipolar
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/conditions/mental-behavioral-health/bipolar-d...

http://web.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/brss/BRSS_BiPolarDisorder.pdf: Jul 22, 2007 9:54am 0 review punk-rock, bipolar, neuro-science
http://web.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/brss/BRSS_BiPolarDisorder.pdf

Bipolar Disorder and the Creative Genius | Serendips Exchange: Jun 23, 2007 4:07pm 1 review mental-health, creativity, genius, bipolar
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper3/Krishna3.html; "One common feature in mania or hypomania is the increase in unusually creative thinking and productivity."

Abnormal Brain Chemistry Found in Bipolar Disorder: May 16, 2007 11:10pm 1 review mental-health, neuroscience, bipolar
http://bipolar.about.com/cs/menu_science/a/press_umich0210.htm; "Now, we must expand and apply this knowledge to give them a treatment strategy based on solid science, not on the current method of trial and error. We should also work to find an exact genetic origin, and to relate those genetic origins to what is happening in the brain."

Those findings, found in 2000, apparently have still not manifested into a strong treatment and correct diagnosis of bipolar.

Psychology Today: Wrestling with Bipolar Disorder: May 16, 2007 9:00pm 3 reviews mental-health, bipolar
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-2941.html; "It's one of the most missed diagnoses in psychiatry. Bipolar disorder, involving moods that swing between the highs of mania and the lows of depression, is typically confused with everything from unipolar depression to schizophrenia to substance abuse, to borderline personality disorder, with just about all stops in between. Patients themselves often resist diagnosis, because they may not see as pathologic the surge in energy that accompanies the mania or hypomania that distinguishes the condition."

Bipolar misdiagnosis - Google Scholar: Apr 16, 2007 10:41pm 1 review research, bipolar
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Bipolar%20misdiagnosis&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search; yeah. there will be a bunch of bipolar posts here. I'm doing a research paper.

Bipolar Focus - at www.moodswing.org - Manic Depression, News & Support: Apr 16, 2007 10:37pm 2 reviews mental-health, bipolar
http://www.moodswing.org/; ...

Mania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Mar 24, 2007 1:03pm 1 review mental-health, bipolar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania; MANIA
"...is a severe medical condition characterized by extremely elevated mood, energy, and unusual thought patterns."
(there's also more to this, like elevated feeling of self, fearlessness, and spontaneity.) etc.

If you notice my below posts on suicide and depressive thoughts, you can contrast that now with how I am blogging. This is how the symptoms stemming from Bipolar represent themself. I don't really think I am manic right now, but it's very possbile I am. It just feels so normal to me. And btw, being manic isn't all bad. It definitely feels better than depression. Although, when my thoughts are racing and I am unclear with my thoughts, the door to depression is wide open. I hate not having a productive thought process. It's not the thoughts, it's the way I think them, or forget them.

Some people would argue that when I talk about Bipolar, I am giving it too much strength.� Well, I do it, kinda to just get it off my chest, but more so to open the awareness to others about the "illness."� It's possible someone in their life, or themselves "suffer" from it, and they aren't very informed.

Self-Medicating: When the Cure IS the Disease - alcohol and drug abuse plus bipo…: Mar 24, 2007 11:45am 1 review mental-health, addiction, bipolar
http://bipolar.about.com/cs/dualdiag/a/0008_dual_diag.htm; "Bipolars" Self Medicate, no shit!

"...substance abuse occurs in 30% to 60% of patients with bipolar disorder and is more likely to coexist with bipolar illness than with any other Axis I psychiatric disorder"

Why do you think that is? It's because those who wouldn't mind taking medication can't afford it. And those who don't care to use medication have a damn good reason why not to.
Do you know what drugs like Lithium and Lamictal and Resperdal do to people? Can you say the word--- NUMB? Not to mention they like to combine meds which leads to a collective control of substance over your mind and body. They also can put you on depression meds that make sex life difficult and cause acne and weight gain, ooooh, yeah like someone would weigh the options and say, give me no erection or no ability to ejaculate because I have an up and down mood. Man, unless you are out there harming people or you have a suicide plan, shouldn't meds be thoroughly examined before willingly subjecting oneself to the unnecessary affects of a legal drug over dose? So results the use of alcohol and caffeine and weed to help with mood issues.

Btw, a mental "illness" is only a term.
There's no "NORMAL"
If someone has a good idea of what normal is, find me an example with a good source and we can talk.