I've enjoyed the recent trend of survey-style questions so much that I'm starting my own.

Everyone with bipolar suffers some sort of life impairment; it is a pre-requisite for diagnosis. The impairment can be academic, social, home-related, or work-related. Of course, most of us have experienced difficulties in more than one area. However, if you had to identity in what way you have been most affected by bp, which category would you choose?

Bp has affected me in all four areas. It makes it hard for me to study, makes me wary to trust my own family, isolated me, and made it difficult for me to reach my full potential when at work. Without a doubt, however, it has affected me most socially. I have very few close friends, and feel like I have lost the ability to make new ones. I feel very lonely most of the time, and yearn for companionship that I do not think I'm worthy of.

Ok; your turn!