The first year after being diagnosed I was constantly having episodes. As in back to back.

So, much of my therapy was focused on crisis management: learning to recognise symptoms of what I did when coming into an episode and what I did during an episode. I was taught how to do sleep hygiene, how to write a schedule, the importance of taking my meds at the same time each day.
We spent a really long time on grief therapy. I was someone who lived to work and I grieved the loss of both my job and my career. I strongly believed at the time that I’d also lost my intelligence and was subsequently grieving and suicidal.

I was taught to practice mindfulness.

As you can see I did a whole lot of therapy. Unfortunately, I’m someone who does all the right things and is still unstable. The thing that keeps me doing the right thing is that I would probably be living in a psych institution if I strayed.