Ok. First, I'm NOT bipolar, so this might not apply.

I feel that I have BETTER attention and can focus more clearly on solving my problems than when I was NOT on medication. The meds took me out of the desperation enough to help me start working on me.

For those important things, the medicine helps. Then I can STOP obsessing and start to live. However, for trivial memory stuff, it suffers a bit.

But I have OCD.