When you are told by a psychiatrist that all you need is to be around healthy people, you get the feeling that maybe your parents were the ones who were really wrong. They did the best they knew how, however, so it's tough to blame them too much. (I was told it was my mother's attitude.)

I just accept the fact that all I need is to be around healthy people, and maybe that's not even bipolar illness, but it's enough to be labeled bipolar, type II.

Overcoming the negativity is something I'll deal with all my life, but I keep living as best I know how. And I accept the fact that many, many others do not like a negative approach to anything in their lives.

Getting negativity out of the system is TOUGH. And if the removal of negativity is what being sociable is all about, then I resign from the "social" world; it's too pretentious.

I hope you are able to manage well, too.

Good wishes,

Genetic