Thank you
My primary language is Norwegian, English was the language for publications and congress presentations during my research years and still is in the books I mostly read presently. Besides it is fun to work with expressing myself in a foreign language.
I came to this forum both to put words on my disorders and to improve language skills.

About bipolarity.
The periods of depression tend to be insifikant vacancies in my life. In between, and during a depression, there is nothing else. That is probably why it took me so long before realizing that I should better seek help.