I have been diagnosed with BiPolar rapid cycling, i'm currently on epival and have been for about 2yrs but we are at it's limit right now and waiting to see how it works on me.............it is hard when everyday you never know how your going to feel. I'm a seperated mother of two, i'm working two jobs but have a amazing boyfriend who now lives with us and helps tremendously however doesn't do well with the illness, he's the type if we don't talk about it it will eventually go away and/or get better!!