[bastawhiz]

You're not describing bipolar disorder, you're describing symptoms of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia (and other similar disorders) affects your ability to think and behave coherently. It's a detachment from reality.

Bipolar disorder is characterized by long (weeks or months) mood swings that range from very motivated and often positive to deeply depressed. When you're "up" you feel overconfident, impulsive, and restless. When you're "down," you are the opposite. There's no notion of false pattern recognition or conspiracy theories.

Not my place to pass judgement either way but don't just make things up when talking about mental health, it's not a good look.

[adfhidnionio]

You've gone too far in the other direction. Mania can be extreme, far beyond what an ordinary person could imagine "very motivated" to mean. Deeply irrational grandiose thinking is common. Either mania or depression can involve psychosis, hallucination, or catatonia.

[bastawhiz]

> mania or depression can involve psychosis, hallucination, or catatonia

Sure. And diarrhea is a possible symptom of the flu, yet saying "I don't have the flu, I'm not shitting my pants" is just outright wrong. Saying that people with bipolar disorder think their a god and see symbols and signs is like saying that people having a stroke are characterized by vomiting and stumbling around.