Hi everyone!



I hope all of you are doing as good as possible, had great new year's, etc...

I wrote in a while ago to say that I was bringing in a phase of greater agency in the management of my illness. I really let myself go for a while, and I was managing a lot of anxiety and depression as a result, and of course protracted hypomania and some mania, etc... Anyhow, I followed through with this, in that I A controlling my diet and am quite strict about it, I have stopped drinking and smoking, I'm not smoking pot or using any other illicit substances, I am doing my best to control sleep and I am trying to mediate and exercise again, commit to a more manageable schedule, etc...

It's working! Though I am STILL bipolar, the symptoms have really narrowed. No extreme lows, and a curbed hypomanic streak.

The point here is, how do you guys continue to manage your condition once you start to feel better? I think it is really important for me to come on here, because interacting with other people who are bipolar is an important part of keeping it real for me, but now that I am feeling better I am not motivated to do this and things like mood tracking, etc... I feel that if I do not do this I'll just get deluged by another manic or depressive wave, so I Really want to stay vigilant about these ways of managing. But does anyone else have the experience of that being hardest when you are actually feeling OK? If so, how do you manage.

OK...

Hope to hear from some of you.
Talk soon!
MT