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The oft mooted Bi-polar excesses that I don't display. Or my excesses trimmed to fit my income.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/26/human-touch-in-bipolar-times Apologies, the copyright has expired on the piece I was addressing. However I think that the reply, or discussion, stands as a piece of criticism about the accepted diagnosis of being bi-polar. The current trend to reduce the diagnosis is to find the patient BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) this can be treated with CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) a cheaper and quicker alternative to long term psychiatric therapy. I read a piece written by Darian Leader in the Guardian Review on 27th April 2013. The piece peddled the same views of being bi-polar that have flowed from the pens of authors and therapists on this subject ever since I have been reading on the subject: namely that bipolar people have excesses that involve spending vast amounts of money or other excesses that in my opinion the ‘normal’ bi polar person could never hope to do or afford. There is always a mention of Catherine