Someone asked me how I could be Bipolar having not had a manic episode for 5 years. The extreme moods I deal with are Anxiety and very bad Depression. It is the latter that has landed me in the hospital twice in the last 4 years.

The answer I gave them is management by good medication and patient care - at least the mania is anyways. Do others share this experience? The eradication of one extreme mood for the exaggeration of another?

Truth be told, I would prefer it the other way around.