I subscribe to the magazine BP Canada www.bphope.ca and this month's article by Julie Fast was great. Julie has bipolar and is the author of several books on bipolar. Her article asked the question "If a mood swing ripped through your life and tore apart your working and personal relationships, would you give yourself time to fully recover?"

My answer to that question would be NO! I can remember during and after my 6 week Psychiatric stay I wanted to get back to work ASAP. Thank goodness my Psychiatrist recognized I wasn't ready and wouldn't allow me to go back for 8 months. Even now, 3 years after my diagnosis I still don't give myself time to recover. Once the fog lifts I go right back to trying to be super human. Sometimes it works, but most times it doesn't. Julie notes in her article that since "bipolar disorder doesn't show it's scar as outward physical distress one might expect to bounce back immediately"

I just wanted to post this to get some feedback on your experiences and remind ourselves that we need to go easy on ourselves.