How about this one?

I know a family--not kidding, now--who are openly positive about everything; but the attempt to hide the negative has led to alcoholism in the "Big Daddy" and at least one son. One daughter has married an alcoholic, and I don't know how the others are faring. I can say, though, that to show the pleasant face to the world and hide what's negative won't work, not in the long run.

We have to get the negative out one way or the other--by meds, by
exercise, by talking to ourselves and REALLY listening to ourselves (which
is the best way, in my view), and working steadily to do things that are
meant to be good and helpful to others.

The spiritual exercises of Ignatious Loyola have been extraordinarily helpful to me in working on that. I keep going back to them from time to time to refresh myself on what he has to say about the thoughts that arise in us. Another thing I've done that has been helpful is that I refuse to look at certain images on T.V. They stick in my mind like glue, almost, and I spend time getting them out of my system. (Excerpts from his exercises--they are mental, not physical-- are
available on the net. ) I think, in a way, his exercises resemble the discussions
we sometimes have in a psychiatrist's or therapist's office. Its worthwhile reading them.

(The eye is the window of the soul; so we need, I guess, to keep a watch on what we look at.)

It has to be genuine from within to work well, IMHO. Bipolars have
an opportunity to see this even more clearly than many others because we
have such sensitive minds, again IMHO.

Man, I dislike the negative like you wouldn't believe because negativity is a
loading for depression; I dislike depression almost as much.