Awesome answer, thanks so much!

I'm hoping this is the meds working....that would be wonderful. I guess the way to find out is just go with it. I've had partial responses to antidepressants and antipsychotics in the past, when we didn't know exactly what I was dealing with, so it would be great to get a "full" response.

I'm really into researching and finding out as much as I can about, well, everything---so finding out what other people do to help manage their bipolar is really interesting to me. I really don't want to lose anymore time of my life to this illness if I don't have to .