I don't know a single person with Bipolar I and it feels like nobody in my life can really understand. I'm lucky to have a support system and an extremely supportive boyfriend, but I don't want to feel like a little kid anymore- always needing help. I'm about a week on Lithium now and today I feel depressed and I don't care about anything. Not to an extreme, but enough that I just want to stay home on the couch and don't care if I go to work. Having job issues mostly- consistency and dependability. Also feeling all sorts of things- ups, downs- I don't even know what "normal" or baseline is for me. I'll start reading everyone else's posts, but just starting to get a feel for this site. Thanks for being here.