The most important thing I've learned from all this is that "this, too, shall pass". No matter how you may be feeling at a given time, it WILL change. You can count on it.

How true that statement is. It will pass, but it will come back also. Also, I think about the quote "Insanity is doing the same things over and over, but expecting different results." I now apply this to bipolar, because for my own sake, I try to do new things, but I don't get different results. I'm still bipolar. I'm still going to swing up, down, and around in circles no matter what.

My best way to describe it is this. It's like being stuck on a merry-go-round without a way to get off.