reost by Schatje: no offense taken. I am amidst trying to figure it all out. Perhaps my issue is more so his denial than my acceptance of the situation? Why when a person, say has blood sugar issues and an outsider says - 'you are symptomatic', or 'your behavior is odd, check your sugar and eat/take medication/call the doc' etc - all's good - that persons listens, accepts and follows the advice...but... my Bipolar experience is...met only with defensiveness, denial, arguementativeness, hostility, aggression, and everything is turned around on me/my fault, no 'I'm sorries' after the abusive facts, and I am only told to leave. And everything just flips - from wonderful and everything you thought you'd been waiting for for decades to...a hellashis nightmare...and there is no talking about it when the plateau comes BECUZ 'it didn't happen that way' - enter denial and defensiveness. I know there's a lot of work that lies before me/us. I am just trying to make some sense of it before I am convinced that I am losing my mind.