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It's three months shy of the three years since my hospitalization and bipolar diagnosis. Today I met with my psychiatrist and she showed me this chart of my mood swings since 2012. The graph showed that my mood swings are dropping in severity of symptoms, and that in the future I may reach a point of little to no mood swings.
I told my psychiatrist that when I feel symptoms I feel alone and far from normal, but she reminded me that since my hospitalization I've gone back to college and I am passing my classes, I have held a steady job, can make goals and achieve them, and even though I make mistakes it only means I am human. I am normal, and my bipolar is part of who I am--it is not a disability.
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