no, if you have bipolar you were born with it. The symptoms usually start to show when major stressors or triggers arise during a lifetime. Mostly in the teenage years.
He/she has a Bipolar mentallity
Some people become psychotic during manic episodes of bipolar disorder.
I have bipolar if you want to talk to me. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/User:22Chika22
They will say at a manic state,"anything ". And they can do everything a non bipolar person can do also, often better!!
Yes, more then a someone with our bipolar disorder but, anyone can misunderstand their own feellings.
no!
Hippocrates describes it although he does not call it bipolar, that term is recent.
Yes
they can poke them
yes
Bipolar isn't something you 'catch'. It is present from conception, but generally doesn't manifest itself until the mid teens to early twenties. And it's impossible to become bipolar 'overnight'; it cannot generally be diagnosed until there has been one or more of both phases, manic and depressive.
Sure, what would make you think they can't? Bipolar is not infectious. Admittedly the bipolar person should be stable to best care for another, but even if not entirely stable they can help. I have bipolar myself and helped care for my mother for about a year and a half as she recovered from cellulitis in her legs.