Well, I see myself as a mom. I see myself as a lawyer...I'm disabled but once a lawyer, always a lawyer.

And, frankly, I have several other diagnoses for MI. And chronic pain.

I suppose I could define myself as a "hot mess"? lol

I hear you, though. I'm disabled because of my bipolar, mainly. Sure, I've got the other stuff but bipolar is the big one.

I think it's the glass half-full approach. It's not giving up. Not giving in.

My boyfriend has bipolar 1 and is disabled. He gets depression and when he gets manic, he gets psychotic and wild. He gets nuclear psychotic and hospitalization always happens, if not 911 or an APB out on his car. For real lol. So his is severe. One day, I asked him:

You've never tried to kill yourself? (I've several attempts, unfortunately.). He said "no." I said, "why not"?

He said: "I want to see what happens tomorrow."

I think that is an example of someone that thinks outside the bipolar box.