Thank you! I do think support groups via associations or societies for or by mental disorder and psychiatry sufferers are great (or/also something like PC).

I don't live in the US, but there are support groups here as well.

The thing is, I still feel sometimes like being in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", sometimes even here, since most with BP (maybe a considerable minority or a majority with SZA/BP or SZ even) are (relative to me) very much in support of how psychiatry works generally, seeing their problems/disorder as an illness and something separate from them and they are still scared of it, but not when separated and contained, like keeping Pandora's box.

Pandora being all-gifted and all-giving, but she opens the box of all evils. The temptations she received as a result of the fires of heaven being stolen. Playing with fire. Touched by fire. Burned by fire. No hope.

One should reintegrate one's mania and depression into oneself, I think. Know mania and depression, but learn not to fear it and bring back more degrees, more emotional and functional states, between mania, depression and stability. Maybe almost like how this can be done with DID.

Since this group is very large, I don't feel like my minority view is not accepted as just a different way of dealing (which I think is superior to having a Pandora's box, but it might not be).

My experience in a "typical" support group were different.

Clinicians really see me as a danger. I can't help feeling (a bit; non-delusional) like Moses (only less talented).