I think there is a balance between feeling it all for what it is, and how you feel it, and also realizing that some of what you are feeling might be not quite true. I wish I had a better word than true, thats not the right word. I did that yesterday too when I said mania is fake, I didn't mean fake, and I did say you still feel it.

What I am trying to say, is that for example.. if you are depressed and you "feel" like committing suicide, I don't think this is a feeling you can fully completely embrace, and is one that you do have to see as being partly because of bipolar.

There is contradictions in this, feeling it all for what it is, and then when we have someone here who is sui, or severely depressed, people say it's the illness and that the depression is lying to you ect. So we have to find a balance in this.