I don't know if i have fully accepted the diagnosis, but i think i mostly have. I had 5 or 6 pdocs agree that i have bipolar, but my therapist doesn't agree and he's a psychologist and spends the most time talking to me. But i think he pretty much doesn't believe in bipolar disorder, he thinks these things are all psychodynamic responses to trauma, for almost everyone. So i don't really agree with his beliefs around the nature of mental illness, but he still makes me question myself and think maybe i'm accepting a label unnecessarily. And if i don't have the label, then i don't need the meds. So that gives me some hope, but also causes confusion. But, i do believe bipolar is a real thing, and it is the best explanation of the way my life has been. I've had symptoms since childhood, sometimes extreme, and sometimes needing hospital. It's textbook in a lot of ways. So i think i do accept it, but it is a little confusing.