Besides, I’m bipolar and I go out into the world and interact normally, not throwing tantrums, threatening suicide and generally acting like a piece of shit.

I’m bipolar – Britney is just plain NUTS.

“If the person is laughing wildly as they’re taken away in the ambulance (like Spears did)” – see, bipolar people don’t generally DO things like that, even at their most manic. That kind of behviour is usually the domain of people with severe psycho-social disorders (such as: deep-seeded paranoia, God-complex disorder), and/or acute schizophrenia. Dr. (and I use that term with a grain of salt) Kirschner is DEAD wrong in her diagnosis.

Brentus, righting psychological wrongs, one diagnosis at a time.