I too notice that with the down phase of my bipolarness I lose my creative momentum. I guess I cope with that by cutting myself some slack. People without mood disorders have high production days and low production days just like us. I think the difference is they don't constantly try and pick thier brains apart trying to figure out why. They just figure they had a bad day and pick up where they left off the next day. What if our low output days are actually days where we are just being well managed on our meds? What if we are experiencing a naturally "blah" day like the rest of the human race?? The problem with bi-polars is, we tend to marinate in all those swirling thoughts in our heads and it gums up the works. It constipates our productiveness. Then again, marinated stuff always tastes better to me. In the long run when we do churn out whatever it is probably good stuff!!