Yes and it's very frustrating.  My sister in law is bipolar and like a lot of you have said, as long as she's on the medication she is fine.  But when she is better she thinks she can do without the medication and then the fun begins.  She can clean house for hours and wants to scrub everything down.  She gets out and goes shopping and spends tons of money (credit), then she and my brother have a hard time paying it back.  It's terrible.

Casey – I think kids have a tendency to call any erratic behavior bipolar.

No one in my family is bipolar, but I am convinced my ex-husband is. His mood swings were tremendous and impossible to live with. He refused to get help so I had no choice but to leave him.

Yes! My son is bipolar. He is up one minute and down the next. He is on medication for his bipolar and his ADHD, but he doesn’t always remember to take them. He is a hard person to live with, but I don’t want him living on his own either.

I have a brother with Bipolar disorder and he drives us mad.  He is great one day and the next he's hiding in his room and won't come out.  I have tried to get him to take his medication consistently but he says he's fine when he's up and too tired when he's down to take it.  Have you ever dealt with this?