Good advice. ^

The ARC and other organizations can use volunteers to provide respite for parents of special-needs kids. I have worked with this population in the past. It can be very emotionally difficult. Try volunteer respite. You have to go thru a training session and they usually have time commitment of several hours a week.

I very much suggest you try this first.

Edit- Btw bipolar people can and do have kids. It is just more difficult. I am a single mother of two kids, one is asperger's. I am also, bipolar 1.