I really am not hoping that you will want to talk about this on the forum, but I would
like to ask you if your psychiatrists ever gave you a reason for you to have the negativity that accompanies bipolar illness?

My psychiatrist let me know early on that it was my mother who was the cause of my sensitivity to negativity and that all I needed was to be around healthy people. I've struggled with it, though, almost since I was a teenager and have taken medications for many, many years.

Now, it seems as though the world is much brighter after finally accepting the realization that it is the negativity that I can't manage because of the attitude of my mother when I was just a toddler.

Abilify is a wonderful medication, just as Lamicatal is, in my view. I could not take either one, however, for long, because they sparked elevated activity, like buying things for myself and others.

I hope it continues to work really well for you.

The illness is an inconvenience, isn't it?

Take good care of yourselves.

I enjoyed the posts.

Genetic