Hi Mileygirl

I'm glad to hear you and your husband are coping with it so well!

It's sooo much easier to accept being diagnosed with a connective tissue disorder, even though it's more serious, than what it is the Bipolor ...

I wouldn't wish a mental illness on any one

hi. Can anyone tell me exactly what bipolar is? My neighbor says she was diagnosed with it, but she doesn't act like a couple people I know that have it. This neighbor stalks 3 families (including us) SHe comes to our door at 11 pm, just to say hi. a few days ago, some of the kids were out playing in the yard. She was out there with them. She came up to my husband and asked him to come out with her because she "couldn't handle watcching that many kids." Noone ever asked her to watch any of them. They were just playing. She gets very emotional when someone "hurts her feelings". (Ex. the apartment complex office asked her kindly to stop coming in there to "hang out" because that was a place of business. SHe came to my door, then, bawling like a hurt child.) The office staff kindly asked her to stop harrassing us and coming by at odd hours. She completely ignored us for a week. She also said that when I moved in, I caused her to "lose" her best friend. This "best friend" was just being neighborly to them. If she lucks out and has a guy over, she screams during sex, just so everyone else knows ahe's "getting lucky" I won't let my kids near her anymore and we have only been here for 3 months. It's been bad with her. I worked with a person who has bipolar and she never acted like this. She has a family, friends and a life. What is up with this girl here??

i'm not a dr. but i do know from watching my girlfriends child that bipolor is different in children then in adults. and yes, that was true for me as a child. i was extremly emotional,had a hard time in school (sitting still) due to restlessness,poor impusle control etc.
maybe, getting a second opinion will benefit. drs. are human and sometimes make mistakes and bipolor is sometimes hard to diagnose.
Liz