Do I care that I have bipolar disorder and must take medications? Of course I do! I can't imagine any reasonable person not giving any damn that they have a mental illness. Or liking it. It's a crap thing to have, but then we must accept plenty of crap things in life. Initially, I had acceptance problems and some cold turkey off medications periods, and they were absolute disaster periods leading to a horrible "bottom"! I eventually learned to accept what I needed to do to find remission.

I try my best to be happy in life. I do have an interesting one. Being mindful of the present and making interesting plans for the future help me not think of stupid bipolar disorder all of the time. I am not the disorder, but know the vulnerability towards mood issues lurks in my brain, still potentially triggered into action, if I'm not careful. I don't cry about it or say "Whoa is me!" I see that as a waste of time and of no value. Sometimes I do still get a little angry, though. We're all entitled to some occasional "Booooooo Hissssses".