Coping skills are for everyone but especially essential for us bipolars

I learned a lot from therapy. I’ve had a few over the years, I’m 66. I got the best advice and skills from no-nonsense brisk therapists. The over emphatic ones didn’t really help. I also preferred therapists that understood bipolar and could give me feedback on my moods so I could learn to self moderate and see a pdoc before the mood was completely unstable. Pdocs do meds that’s what they know, that’s what they’re comfortable doing. I’ve learned to tell pdocs I don’t want a med change, I just want to to know this is going on and that I’m struggling, maybe an adjustment in meds but not a total overhaul.