I've worked in mental health for many years and I can spot them a mile away. Bipolar people are very easy to detect. You are changing your story now again after saying you enjoyed her rants. This is really a pointless conversation as you are going to defend her behavior no matter what and she is going to keep saying she is picked on. I won't engage w/ her on any level anymore so she can blame it on someone else. That goes for Ghandi too.Neither one are worth a response.
OK, Dreams, I've had enough now.
If you work directly in mental health, it seems you would have compassion for someone with a mental illness rather than using it as a club to beat the person up. What is it....do you think there is some inherent shame in having mental illness? Does it make a person "less than" in your view?
Chrissy was spot-on in something she wrote today. If she did have a mental illness (and I don't know if she does or not, but by golly I have had clinical depression, which I am not ashamed to admit), constant, pointed criticism could be quite hurtful, even to the point of suicide. This has happened time and again with young people who participate in Facebook. I expect it has happened with adults, too, although that would generate less media interest.
And let me tell you something else. The other day, I posted about going to Publix and having insufficient funds in my account to pay my grocery bill. I've never had that happen before, so it was a big deal to me. Although the last thing in the world I would have hoped for or expected would have been for someone on these forums to lend me a helping hand, there is one person who offered. That person was Chrissy.
If that doesn't speak to her character, I don't know what does.