This article was originally published on the Bp Magazine webpage.
Acceptance comes and goes. I roll with it….
Degrees of Doubt
Never completely accepting that I have bipolar doesn’t mean that I don’t work hard to manage the illness daily. I work on this management despite my inability to calmly accept that this bipolar is in my brain for life.
There is no magic date that I can look to where I changed so profoundly that having bipolar became easier. I don’t have a specific number of days—or even years—I can use to measure success. Bipolar management is usually three steps forward and two steps back. I then have to count the one step I did manage to stick [ Read More ]
Why is it SO hard for us to handle uncertainty? Bipolar is an illness that often remains idle if there are no outside triggers. This is one reason that stability at home helps us find stability in our minds. But wow, unless we decide to stay in a dark room and never go out in the world, we will find triggers around ever corner. This is especially true if we work with others. Uncertain situations are stressful for us. Two people with two different ideas are not always great at working things out! People without bipolar do get upset in these situations, but for those of us with bipolar? Uncertainty can set off a chain of events that ends with a serious mood swing. When I am in a situation that 
