Sometimes I learn as much from myself trying to explain things as I do from the t's feedback.

My current t is very goal oriented; she wants me to recognize the warning signs of depression and hypomania and use CBT to try to head off some of the negative tendencies. I can't stop the hypomania but I can be a little more grounded and limit expressing grandiosity. I can choose not to dwell on things in depression (up to a point; if I fall into the abyss, CBT is useless). That's the plan.