Dear Thomi,
I wanted to bump up this thread for you and others to respond.
I am new here as well.
I want to encourage you to be patient with all of this, with yourself.
Unfortunately there are no quick fixes.
Fall down 7 times get up 8....
What I am learning is that my issues are seperate from my bipolar.
Treat them seperately.
Treat the bipolar with meds(your pdoc) and
deal with your issues with your therapist(tdoc).

Always remember that you are a person first
who happens to have mental health issues as well.

Welcome
this is definately the place for on-line support!
bizi