Thank y'all so much, I was afraid I was the only one struggling with it!

I've started in the past year to make sure I"m on a regular sleep schedule, I excerise everyday during the week, and I avoid large amounts of caffinee outside my daily cup of coffee, which if I'm feeling manic I skip, I've eliminated a lot of processed sugars too and noticed it helps my mood swings.

My problem is when I hit a low, or a manic peroid, if I get low I can't motivate myself to get out of the house, if I"m manic I can't get myself to sit still or focus on the material at hand

I didn't know I could contact the disablities office over my bipolar disorder, that is something I will have to to look into when I transfer, right now I"m able to talk to my instructers on a face to face level and let them know what is going on with me, I go to a very small community college and all the professeor's have been very understanding and helpful, but when I transfer to a four year university I will find out about the disablity office

Sometimes I get in the fear I"m using it as an excuse, but school got very hard for me around the 5th grade, and continued to get more and more diffcult through my high school years, I was a decent student, but was always missing assignments, found it hard to go to school, and focus in class, and other days I was sharp and attentive and on top of things,

It's just so hard to focus, and to accomplish things, it's a challenge for me, espically with the mood swings, I never put the two and two together and that it was having an affect on my schooling

Guess it doesn't help my parents don't believe me about my bipolar disorder, and would never accept it affects my schooling, which in turn doesn't help me accpet it does,