Thank you for the welcomes everyone!

Today was a good day. I spent most of it with my boyfriend of about 4.5 months. He has been very open about learning about how Bipolar disorder affects me, but has been asking a lot more questions in the last week or so. We are getting serious enough that it's time to start having some more intense conversations about this, and about what we want out out of a relationship in general. Him asking questions about my symptoms is good for me to because challenges me to be more in tune to what is going on and to reflect on patterns I have noticed. Also, when I was diagnosed back in September of 2021, I never had someone talk with me about key lifestyle changes to make or what things might look like long term. His questions are making me think more about these things and will provide a good starting point to ask my pdoc (different, and much better, than the one who diagnosed me) about these things. Even though I was diagnosed almost two years ago, I feel like I am just starting to get to a point where I want to do more to take control of the disorder instead of blaming it for so much and letting it have more control over me than it should.

Have a good day (or evening, or night depending on when you read this)!