My life isn't perfect and I have regrets that I live with and frustrations about the current limits on my life and past limits that my bipolar disorder imposed on me. I won't say I'm happy all the time or content all the time, but it's more good than bad.

But right now I think the way I feel about my life is the same for a lot of people without mental illness. There's extra challenges and not every day is a good day, but I can get up and go to work (a job I look forward to and like for the most part), I have a boyfriend and I have fun watching tv and playing video games and playing with my cat. I don't have a social life, but then I never really have had that. I don't really like the way I look but a lot of people without mental illnesss struggle with that.

So now I'm making it sound like my life is bad. I think there are very few people who don't think there life could be better in some way. But for the most part I'm content. My life is way better than it was before I was being treated for bipolar disorder and way better than the first years after my diagnosis.

It could be worse, it could be better, but for the most part I don't think about it too much so I guess that means I have level of happiness.