I had thought for years that our community needed a support group for people with MI to gather and find solutions to problems and be there to support each other. We have a town of about 13,000. I finally contacted N.A.M.I. and was trained with another friend to be facillitaters and we had a meeting last night . I was hypomanic and pretty much trippin, everyone else was suicidal. It turned out to be an honest, open, connected experience and everyone loved it. I didn't think I could do it I was trippin so hard with this manic stuff but I shared about it and took a zanax and it all went well!!!

Interesting note-the town Psychiatrist attended and talked about his sufferings with BP. Amazing. He's several of our pdocs there! Then he went on to say he's moving to a different practice so we will no longer have him. I'm sad about that-he'is the best ever and my meds are all mixed up-going to his office today as a walk-in.

Moral to the story Never give up-there is someone out there who is worse off than me who needs my help and when I give back I forget about my problems and begin to flow with life again.