Oh certainly, I know a number of bipolar people who have been diagnosed, and undoubtedly others who haven't. Ultimately bipolar disorder is a subjective diagnosis in the first place, primarily based on the DSM and often relatively arbitrary diagnosis by psychiatrists. I probably should qualify most of my comments about bipolar disorder by stating that I am referring to people with severe symptoms, like extreme polarity in moods (way beyond the average person) and bouts of psychosis.
Based on EL's Tumblr, she seemed to verify that she had extreme depression. She described lengthy bouts of intense depression and isolation that impeded her basic life functioning. On the flip side, she reported periods when she would do things like say totally random comments to strangers while she was alone and then run away and find benches or seats that are perpendicular to each other. Strange to say the least, but clearly any judgement of her Tumblr entries are bound to whether they were truthful or not. To me they seemed quite honest.
I was referring to the 'media blackout' when saying they were cagey. Personally I found their behavior to be very non-forthcoming compared to most other potential murder cases that I've witnessed, especially ones with very public, very mysterious circumstances. Of course there are reasons they may have behaved this way, but the amount of publicly-released details were extremely limited outside of the video. And even the few details they released have been found to be questionable or contradictory :twocents:
I understand what you're saying, but bipolar people have different symptoms. This is made even more true by the subjective definitions/diagnosis of psychiatric disorders.
Bipolar disorder is associated with psychosis in many people. This is a fact. Delusions and psychosis are in no way limited to personality disorders, and some personality disorders have nothing to do with psychosis (ie. antisocial personality disorder). Again, these diagnosis are subjective to a large extent, and overlap, and some mood disorders, such as biopolar, are very similar to some personality disorders, such as borderline.
And I don't anyone has ever suggested that she committed suicide (or at least no one around here). Accidental death is not suicide... it's a very different thing with different motivating factors. For instance, manic behavior can bring about delusional and invincible feelings that can lead to dangerous decisions that are not motivated by wanting to die.