I am very high functioning. I don't think my pdoc would go so far as to say I don't have bipolar disorder, not knowing the history he has helped me through. But I do think he'd say I am very much in a long remission from symptoms and in a much better place psychologically to cope healthily with any future episodes than I was in the past.

I have high hopes that I won't regress into the level of difficulties I went through in the past, in large part because the comorbid PTSD symptoms that GREATLY complicated my bipolar symptoms is very much under control. Personally, the PTSD gave me much bigger problems than bipolar ever did, but the PTSD was something I was finally able to work through in therapy (after many years of very intense work) which simplified my mental health issues greatly.