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Great news! Bipolar I is difficult to manage but with meds/therapy it is possible. I went from being non-functional to going back to work and living again. This is great news and much love

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I can't imagine how hard it must be living with bipolar disorder. There's an asshole manager at my work who allegedly suffers from it, so I kind of feel bad for him, but he's so out of line sometimes that I can't help but to hate his guts.

Anyhow, "unipolar" depression runs in my family, and my sister has been the worst affected by it - got anorexia nervosa for almost 2 years, but thankfully recovered. It's very hard for family members to deal with it as well, because you feel this sense of guilt that you're not doing enough to help, and guilt because you resent them for draining you.

Not to self diagnose or anything, but I was depressed as shit for quite a while ... From 12 - 16 I was in a pretty bad, dark , and lonely place. Then when I was 14 a close family member died and my dad got cancer, so I was even worse. My mom brough me to a doc who wanted me to take pills and go to group sessions and shit but I didn't want to so I stayed lonely and depressed for a few years and did some dumb shit. Then I don't really know what clicked but when my dad finally finished treatment after almost losing his life with the cancer and the doctors said that he would end up ok, something went on in my head and I slowly started to change my outlook and became happier and more appreciative. I've had off days, but since then I've never been into a bad depression slump like that. Not exacley sure how to describe how the transition happened, but without that event it probably wouldn't have. Sometimes you just have to be really thankful and appreciative and realize what you have in life , as retarded as it sounds. And I guess if nothing good happens that makes you see these things, you have to have more strength and a wide perspective, which I think is really hard, but obv good in the long run.

Glad to hear you're doing well.

I am on abilify, and have been donig pretty well for about 5 years now, and have been in remission for over 2 years now.

always nice to hear when people are doing well.