Good ideas. Its had for me to accept the bp diagnosis. I've never had a manic episode and seem to have only lost control of my emotions since trying effexor then changing to lithium. I thouth the li was helping but I'm not sure anymore. My pdoc says that what I'm experiencing is normal and its me seeing my dh through sane eyes, but I feel more like I am going more crazy. My friends mostly say he's been like this always and I have put up with it for too long. Only one friend of both of ours says he wants us to work through this. He admits though I haven't been myself since dh retured from deployment.