Hi everyone. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder just last year, after many years of having depression and mania and making mistakes and losing relationships. I am 20. I'm currently taking Prozac and Abilify for my depression and mania, but I feel extremely overwhelmed at the moment and I don't know how to cope with things going on around me. I'm currently enrolled in school, and I am usually a straight A student, but I find it hard, because of my medications, to get out of bed or to even get the motivation to do my school work or go to class. I've been missing a lot of class lately because I feel stressed out, and it's like a vicious cycle... I hate myself for missing class or doing poorly on assignments, but I continue to skip because I am so behind. I want to be open with my professors about what is going on, but I'm not sure how to communicate with them. I also have been noticing that I've been thinking about more suicidal thoughts than I usually did. I think it's also because of all the stress I have, and the expectations I have to get everything done and to do it perfectly. I also took the sanity test and it said I had some borderline traits. I was wondering if anyone had any information about borderline personality disorder and if someone could explain it to me. I've heard of it before and before I also associated some of my traits with borderline traits, but I don't know, because I have bipolar disorder and I'm not sure that you can have traits of both? I'm going to get referred to a psychiatrist soon to be able to talk to them about my pills and my reactions to them... I just want some support in the meantime to see how I can get myself out of this hole....