I don't know, I don't think it is pointless. But I am of the belief that everything in life is meant to teach us something. For whatever reason it may be. I also believe that I am who I am and if I did not have bipolar I would be someone else. If I was someone else, then my whole life would have been different. I wouldn't have my husband or my kids and I would be in another place entirely. You may argue it could be a "better" place, but I love my family and wouldn't trade them for anything, so bipolar has been part of the reason I have them.

And I think people with bipolar amount to things all the time. On this very forum we have someone who has earned a PhD! I mean, wow! And actors, writers, CEOs, all types of people have bipolar. I don't think it's an automatic sentance of failure. I think it just means you need to learn to do things differently than the "normal" people, but we are highly creative, highly intelligant folks. The only reason to fail is to doom yourself to it. And I think that can be easy to do, I know I have a tendancy to do it to myself. But then I have to force myself to shake it off and keep moving. I refuse to lose the fight.