It isn't as if they have bipolar.

[Lik3]

What would you do if someone in a fit of anger always throw up the bipolar disorder in your face? How should I handle this? Their view is that I am being selfish and it is affecting them. What should I say about this?

 

[Wolfe]

Tell them it's no excuse for their behavior.
And that conceding defeat to the affliction, is all they're doing.

And that the only way that they will fix their "bipolar disorder", is to confront it, and do something about it.
It's manageable with pills, but I know several people who have beat multiple extreme mental illnesses, through Christ.
Psychopathy, dementia, alzheimers, etc.

And myself, I have overcome (been backsliding recently though) an extremely violent temper.
So it does work.

 

[Lik3]

Thank you. I agree.

 

[Greg J.]

There is no such thing as "confronting" bipolar disorder while depressed (or for clinical depression) for some people. It can be impossible. It's like telling an insomniac to take responsibility, deal with it, and just go to sleep.

Bipolar Disorder is not an acceptable excuse for behavior, but it is an acceptable explanation for some consequences of it.