Notdamooma,

It can be really frustrating sometimes. Are you just newly diagnosed? There are some good things that can really help, especially in the beginning. Like keep a mood chart and tracking your moods and stressors, meds and sleep. This can give you alot of insight into patterns and triggers.

Knowing your triggers is great, so you can take some control over those things and know your limits. Alot of hospitals have outpatient programs. If you can get into one of those, it can be tremendously helpful for learning to cope and manage.

Therapy is also a good place to start. It's really hard to get bipolar undercontrol with a medication only route, because the meds can only do so much.

Welcome to PC, glad to have you here. Hope to see you around the forum.