Heya to the new members, from another pretty new member! (look at my post count... haha.. might be new but clearly I'm pretty dang wordy!)

I'd recommend reading as many posts as you can - just find the subforums that seem useful and then read through the current threads. I found that the more I read, the less alone I felt - especially in the bipolar one! I've only JUST started going about with getting diagnosed.. so while reading a lot of the threads I've just gone "Oh wow... that's not criteria for BP but holy crumb a lot of people go through the same things I do!!!" and it has so far put almost all of the "weird" things about me into the category of "a lot of other people with bipolar have this too so it can't be THAT weird!"

I hope that you'll find a lot of the threads like that for you too!