I find I did more of that earlier when I first was diagnosed. Now I find it matters mostly when i have to talk to my Pdoc or when I am having problems with a cycle or my son is preventing me from doing what I need to in order to keep on blance, like sleep. Otherwise, It is just like my aching shoulder or my vertically challenged body build; part of me that can be a pain but is part of me: like rings in a tree, it colors and brings certain things into relief, and sure, I'd like to be without it, but i can still use it. Being short has it's uses, but I'd rather be taller My shoulder is a pain in another part of the anatomy, but I have it because I've lived life; would I rather have been protected so much I'd never stood on skiis? climbed trees? Tarred a roof? Worked a building site? Climbed a mountain? I have fallen in all of those contexts.
I think it is normal to get over involved with something like a chronic mental illness in the beginning when you have to fit it into the story of who you are. The trick is not getting stuck in it. Here on this site, I can play it up because I feel free to do so. When not, it's importance fades rapidly. HUGGS all and many more.