So Hi! Im new here as of today. i like the variety and the amount of activity on this site. i post to bi-polar issues on another site as well. Well, sometimes, im not a avid poster. i've been diagnosed since 2001 and at the time I was a working MFT in California. I think and no one has yet disagreed, that i was late onset. That symptoms were not present until probably a year previous. So i retired. I'd been working for 20 years and so the timing was good. And so now my issues are "soft" bi-polar depression (which, for me, cycles throughout the day with deep depression and sort of vague hypo-mania or just base line) and anxiety. Not much is going on for me today. I got a "good job' from my boss (I'm now an auditor) today and allowed myself to let some stress coming from co-workers just go. i run a "desk" of 5 people. and it can be stressful when i'm cycling and don't want it to affect my work or my relatioships with co-workers. But today is a good day.