I agree krisakira,

Part of what I had to realize when first medicated and is that it doesn't make the bipolar magically go away. That I will still have symptoms. I will always be Bipolar. And I realized that just feeling BETTER was enough. Just feeling like everything was mostly good is just a okay. Once I accepted that I was much happier.

The goal and the unrealistic idea of having absolutely zero symptoms would set a lot of people up to feel bad

Bipolar is just more complicated than that.