Things get better with time of course. The best thing, IMO, you can do is talk on here to people, learn about Bipolar disorder, and try to figure out ways to make it work for you instead of against you. From what I've seen, most people with BP are pretty intelligent individuals.

I also told people about my disorder, because everyone knows that I'm "a little odd" but I'd never been diagnosed as BP before. Now it all makes sense, but I look back and say "Holy crap, I did some really dumb things.. but I kindof have an excuse." Not that I want to use this as some type of crutch for doing stupid things, but at the same time, I'm going to be myself and quit taking crap from people just because I'm trying to be 'nice' and really pushing my real feelings away which is very difficult and was driving me nuts.