You can think of yourself as a mentality ill patient and go from one episode to the next or you can see yourself as warrior and live your life between episodes. It was a powerful message to stop giving in to the bipolar and seeing myself as helpless and to start living for the stable periods.

Who, some wise inpatient pdoc who saw that I had too many hospitalizations. He advised me not to fear my episodes but work on dealing with coping skills instead of panic whenever I went up or down. And he was right. Often I could ride out episodes. Using coping skills and emergency meds.

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