[QUOTE=BipolaRNurse;3273956]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. [/QUOTE

I always start the day with the long version of the serenity prayer and then as the day goes on and I'm struggling and say - "This too shall pass..." many times a day. It's hard to believe some days, but I know that it is true and I fake it until I make it.