Shakti great post! I think there are a lot of factors that come in to play when managing bipolar and for me the medication is the most important, but there are other things I do to keep myself stable. Even with all that I do I still experience mood swings, but it's nowhere where it was the last few years before I was diagnosed.

I'm a highly sensitive person, so any shift in mood I feel it , but 3 years after being diagnosed I have the same career I had before my diagnosis and I have a fairly "normal" life. What I needed to come to terms with and still need to remind myself of is I have a mental illness, it's not going to go away and medication is necessary, but it won't take it away.