I wanted to ask this question because I don't know anyone else who is bipolar in real life. I know that there are varying degrees of the illness and how it affects different people differently. What is your illness like? How often and how seriously does it manifest?

For me, before I had the right diagnosis, I would have a serious episode every two years or so. If I went off medication, I would have an episode every two years with no symptoms in between. So far with medication there have been no symptoms and it's been about a year since I started taking moderate doses of lithium and small doses of zyprexa.

What about you?