I don't know how many of you can relate to this, but this is me in a pretty common mixed state:

> Someone asks me to do a photo shoot for them, but I am already booked to help run a bipolar support group at that date and time. I want to do the shoot, so I need to contact the support group leader to negotiate some changes.....only there is no answer on the phone. I suddenly need to speak to them NOW!!!!!!! I can't help myself. There is no alternative. No middle ground. No waiting can be done. I have to make a decision right away. So I turn away the photo shoot.

> The next day I am browsing a web site and come across a post that has a rather arrogant undertone to it. (well, I think so, anyway). I don't just think "hmph. that was a bit self opinionated" and move on. Oh no! I feel intensely offended that someone should dare deliberately provoke me into feeling so angry about whatever it was they said that didn't matter anyway. The content of it has long since been forgotten, yet the mood brews and bubbles away and I find myself fighting a ridiculous load of negative thoughts that the original poster probably had absolutely no intention of provoking. They surely had no idea I had read their comment anyway. LOL.

> I give my 10 yr old daughter a huge hug (just out of the blue) and the tears rolling down my cheeks drip onto her neck. She looks up with concern and simply says "I love you daddy". Nothing more said. Nothing more needed. Just acceptance.

If you have something crazy about your bipolar experience to share, post it. It's good to laugh at ourselves now and then.