Hi everyone, I am semi-new to this forum as I have been lurking for a couple of weeks and finally decided to introduce myself and ask a question. First of all I am 30, married to a wonderful man for the past 9 years, work full time, and have been living Overseas for the past 3 years due to Military orders. I was diagnosed with BP type 1 in January (after a long road of ignoring my symptoms and then being diagnosed with just depression and thrown on medication that made me manic, hospitalized, then off my meds, then full blown mania, suicidal so on and so forth) and have been going to therapy and taking my meds like a good girl

Anyway, my husband has been my biggest supporter, and shoulder to lean/cry on and he has recently left for a deployment. This is the first time in my life I have ever lived alone (always parent/roommates/husband) and while I think I am doing fairly well on my own, I am worried about slipping into hypomania/mania while he is gone. It is easy for me to tell I am getting depressed (not getting out of bed, no hunger, no desire to do anything etc etc) but it is far harder for me to tell when I am slipping into that feeling of feeling REALLY GOOD . It's usually too late for me to tell I was even like that until I'm becoming depressed afterwards, and the damage has been done.

So my question is, how do you manage your symptoms when you live alone? My therapist told me to get a mood tracker app to use everyday but all the ones I've found are just..meh. Any advice?