Can totally relate. Panic attacks are the worst! I’m glad that you are feeling some better. Reading a book I like or writing fiction or poetry usually helps me—so does prn Clonazapam.

As for the bipolar check-in, today has been pretty good in that I finished rereading “Dry” by Augusten Burroughs, whose books I find alternately tragic and hilarious. Most significantly, I finished reading the novel that I wrote as an undergrad and felt really moved by it. I regret never having sent it out for publication; maybe I’ll do so now.

I’m a little pissed at my psychiatrist’s office staff b/c they said they were calling me in more Lithium yesterday afternoon, and I don’t think they did. So, I’m going to have to take less tomorrow so that I have some on Monday—sucks. My mood just got stable; I don’t want it dysregulated again.