I even got through law school and the passed the bar exam--being somewhat "normal," but the work was too much for me and I stopped in 1994.

Since my having my daughter in 1995 I have been up and down, bipolar so much worse than before having a child (I would never tell her that).

I have been a great mother at my own expense--all my energy goes for her and the household.

I don't think that has been healthy and I am in a bad place now, but being a mother with a husband who is away all the time, it is all I can manage.

I was at times normal when I was younger and not on all this medicine--before I was diagnosed in 1996. Once you are put on all these meds and know you have to take them how can you be normal?