I have been working on BipolarType since the early 1980s when I was diagnosed as bipolar at around the same time I learned about personality type. I, my mother, her father, and his mother presumably all had the same bipolar gene but we all had very different symptoms. And the treatments that worked for my mother and grandfather did not work for me.

BipolarType started as an attempt to create a self-rating questionnaire. As a rapid-cyler, scales that required behaviors to last for two or more weeks were unable to accurately describe my episodes. And the binary scale of either manic or depressed wasn’t complex enough to describe my mixed states.

BipolarType grew into a comprehensive theory that allows me to treat my symptoms behaviorally depending on where I am in the cycle and what my current stressors are, and recognize when those behaviors have overcompensated and created new problems that require different solutions.

The theory is scientific (it is falsifiable) but has not been validated by the medical, psychiatric, psychological, or type communities. I am sharing it on the web because it helps me. I hope that you will find it interesting or useful.