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The field of psychology has words for everything. It has a word for when you talk too fast. A word for when you talk too slow. A word for when you smear your feces around your bedroom.

It even has a word for your reaction to being diagnosed. Reject the diagnosis? You're “underidentifying” with being bipolar. Want to make sweet love to it? You're “overidentifying” with your bipolar characteristics (“Ha ha, that was just soooo bipolar of me”). The endless labeling is alienating, but since you're going to run into it, you might as well be prepared.