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Remember, the DSM-IV is a tool for categorizing mental illness—not the singular and definitive description of your personal experience. You're a person, not a set of symptoms. When reading this book or any book about bipolar disorder, a “take the best, leave the rest” attitude is in order. Categories and definitions are a lot of cultural flotsam and jetsam that will change with time. The important thing is for you to feel happy, healthy, and cool, no matter what your “diagnosis” is or how the world wants to understand it.

So if any of this technical diagnostic stuff sounds like bullshit to you, just move on down the chapters.