[fabriclady]

"diagnosed as bipolar, something we've also seen no proof of, is not remotely close to being certified as nuts"

I doubt you know what you're talking about. I have known, very well, two bipolar people. Their life is in no way normal. If they fail to take their medication, they become very uppredicitable. They will sometimes be a danger to them selves. One that I know does not want to take her medication. She will disappear for days at a time and cause so much grief for her family.

[jennyd]

She still won't be ever certified as nuts. Nuts is not a medical term. LOL.

[RecallMoran]

My experience is the same. I knew two women in college diagnosed as bipolar. When they did not take their medication, unpredictable behavior was the least of it. One of the women would hurt herself (such as smashing a glass table with a lamp and having cuts from the glass) and become utterly convinced that she was the victim of a violent assault by her 80 year old father who was living about 1,000 miles away. This was a delusion that she insisted occurrred while she was in the hospital. Listening to her you would swear she was telling the truth, but it never happened. I've thought about this when I heard Crystal was bipolar, remembering how convincing a bipolar person can be that they were the victim of a violent, heinous assault that never occurred.

By the way, this doesn't mean they are "nuts," but it does mean they have a very serous medical condition and you can't take what they say at face value.

[Jezebelle]

Being certified as nuts, as in not knowing right from wrong, is what I was referring to. Bi-polar people know right from wrong as well as anybody else. When they're on a high cycle, they make bad choices and abandon varying degress of restraint, but you are wrong or misled if you think that means they don't know right from wrong.