Glad to hear I'm not the only one concerned about Pope Francis. He just ripped into the Vatican bureaucracy a couple of days ago, so there's probably a lot of grumbling and plotting going on!

And congratulations on over twenty years sobriety! And I hear what you're saying, for me one of the most healing parts of support groups has been being there for other people--as much as I can be anyway.

SMART is great. I haven't been to a meeting in a while, though. It's designed, as you probably know, to help with a variety of addictive behaviors. I used it for alcohol and my eating disorder. It helped a great deal with the alcohol, but I've since relapsed with my ED.

And thanks for the input on the psych meds, I really appreciate your views. One of the tragic things about having bipolar is that part of the illness is being resistant to outside help. So I don't even know if I'm competent to make an informed decision right now. I feel one way one minute, completely different the next. I don't trust myself, but I don't trust doctors either. It's a quandary. I have a dr. appointment tonight, though. So we'll see what happens and whether or not I can bring myself to take whatever he gives me.