I accepted it; I had known that I had a problem for years and began to suspect bp a few months before my diagnosis. However, like Roadrunner, I am not so pleased with the full implications of being bipolar. I am in a bit of denial over them.

Now that I've been diagnosed, I often question it. I wonder if I might be more of a borderline personality, or if I'm "just" your garden variety depressive who gets a little hyper sometimes, or even if I have some sort of dissociative disorder (definitely not DID, but sometimes I could see depersonalization disorder explaining some of my symptoms). I always come back to the conclusion that yes, I have bipolar. So now I just need to learn how to stop wasting my energy on doubt-and all the research that goes along with it!