The symptoms are not some strange, evil force that takes you over, they may be part of your life. You going to get a cold next year (or the year after?). Of course. Yes, bipolar symptoms are worse than cold symptoms but you don't fret about the cold symptoms when you do get them, you deal with them the best you can and wait for them to get better. Should be same routine with any illness?

Learn your personal signs and what works best for you when you have a problem and work to make yourself more healthy (eating right, getting enough sleep, exercise, perhaps therapy, etc.) so you do not have relapses as "often", if at all.