Hold on dear one. You have made a REAL difference in my struggles recently so I am making it a point to applaud what an AMAZING asset you are to so many people here. You just hang on, the dark clouds pass, even when they totally feel like they never will.

I am absolutely and totally thriving. I had been surviving by hiding underneath BEING AND EXISTING in Bipolar, that I never gave myself the chance to take the strength to take out the BEING bipolar part, and pull it outside of myself to now say it is something I simply HAVE.

I am not speaking for others when I say this, but the crap I was doing to myself was self-inflicted and I TOTALLY knew it. How did I ever expect for anything to improve if I kept on with the self-damaging behavior? Things happen sometimes that can shake us to our bipolar core and we can fall apart, but we can also put ourselves together too. Either way, we need to take that Warrior strength that we have when we battle this mental illness and use it to improve the quality of our lives.