I went to a BP support group once and came away depressed. I could not relate to some of the others. I asked one guy (who owned a million dollar company) how bad mania interfered with his work and he told me "I love it! I get more done." I'm just the opposite: it completely shuts my mental and physical energy down, it messes with my thought process, I become totally dysfunctional and probably psychotic. No more groups for me.