Just remember that when your brain is telling you that life will never get better, it is lying to you. Bipolar brains have a way of doing that. (The flip side to this, unfortunately, is that when we're over the moon and having a GREAT TIME! our brains are lying to us then, too.) Your mantra needs to be This, too, shall pass. It always does. As a PP said, bipolar is cyclical by nature, and this phase will not last forever. I promise.