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OK, OK, easy, Tiger. You might be an AspieBipoEpiAnxiousPainSomniac . . . or you might just be a human being who's working with a particularly challenging mind and body, the same way your cousin Angie is a human being who's been working on an unusually challenging muscle car for the past six years (she got it running ages ago, but now she's obsessed with getting it to make a particularly . . . muscular . . . kind of roar when it drifts around corners . . .).

On the other hand, AspieBipoEpiAnxiousWhatever might not be that far off the mark. With the rise of genetic testing, scientists are finding possible links between conditions like bipolar, autism, and schizophrenia—hinting that they might not be as separate and distinct as we've assumed. Other researchers have found a strong connection between bipolar disorder and chronic pain, bipolar and anxiety, bipolar and trauma, bipolar and Kundalini syndrome (it's a thing!). . . the list goes on. So where does one condition end and the next one begin? It's hard, if not impossible, to pinpoint. That's why it's important to take steps that improve your whole life, not just “bipolar”—because “bipolar” is almost never the whole story.