Hello everyone, I'm very happy to be here. I was diagnosed with bipolar I about a year ago and my life was chaos and symptomatic for the last 14 years or longer. I'm 27 now, trying to study at university but I keep changing my subjects and never finishing anything I start. I also have ADHD so that's that. I've been on lithium for 9 months, it didn't help against mania or depression... gained 60 pounds and now my doctor prescribes me Zoloft, Abilify and Concerta. I like that mix, I just still get quite manic when on it. Nothing seems to help to really stabilize me. When I'm manic it's really bad, I build companies and never follow trough with the ideas of course, spend 6000 $ in one day and 20'000 in a month even tough I don't have that money. I totally ruined my parents finances with my actions- they hate me for that, are disappointed and treat me like I was mentally deranged ever since those events. Great. But still I am proud of living with bipolar, it takes so much strength and courage to face this illness everey day. We can all be proud of ourselves! It also makes me super creative, which I love. If anyone of you ever comes to Switzerland- let me know- I'd love to meet you! I am so happy to have found this forum and to see there's people who are facing the same issues as I am and that I'm not alone in this. that is so empowering!