Thanks for your thoughts. I'll call my meds person, yeah. I have to fly today and along with insomnia, Effexor makes me agitated and shaky and I already hate to fly.

That's totally me! I'm the responsible one in my family. Everyone comes to me with their problems. I've been everyone's counselor since I was a child. I do great in college, never earned less than an A and my job loves me. I've only ever missed 1 sick day that I didn't make up later in the week and 1/2 day due to insomnia. Like I said, I and other people probably have such a distorted view of what bipolar is and that it affects otherwise normal, healthy, responsible people, that it may be worse to tell my family and friends about it than to just deal with it on my own with my meds person and therapist.