I have what I consider a good number of friends with whom I communicate frequently. I don't like the phone so I do a lot of texting. I have one friend from here and we text daily. She is the only person I know IRL who totally gets it, and we have more in common than just BP. The rest of my friends are either not BP or they are very well-controlled with few episodes (one friend is cyclothymic). I feel blessed to have people I can contact any time of the day or night if I need to, but I rarely if ever need to.