THERE'S SOME GREAT ADVICE GIVEN HERE THUS FAR - but I want to add to these the fact that nearly all of us BP's begin with denying our illness and finding hundreds of reasons why the mental health professionals are wrong and we were just going through a bad period in our lives, or weren't thinking correctly, or were just emotionally devastated by Blah, Blah, Blah . . . . But eventually, this illness traps us in a corner where we cannot deny its reality. Only then, provided we survive, can we accept the help we so desperately need.

If you've been diagnosed by a mental health professional, please accept the truth of your illness and follow their guidance to recovery - before something disasterous happens to you.