You're not alone. There's lots of people here that are willing to help.

come on here...learn...go to therapy...your group will help alot...

It's hardest in the beginning stages. It took a while for my family to come around but they did eventually.

Thank you gizzmo and chancel.
I do find many on here are very helpful.
The ups and downs are just so hard to deal with. I guess I'm a rapid cycler.

Come onto DS and talk...
Talk A LOT!!There is always someone here to support you.Add me as a friend if u want!!LOL- u are not alone

i only know that i have found friends that understand on THIS site.

I agree with everyone here. It's a hard thing to deal with period............ but with little support, it's a monster. This board is great for sounding out and getting the support you are lacking at home.

I have very little support at home. I have very little family............. no brothers or sisters............. just my mom........... and two grown children. My mom is supportive when she's in the mood, but mainly she tells me she should've known better than to have children since this illness goes back in her family 2 generations. Great mom!

My son who is 28 is into his own thing. He is finally just now coming to terms that he too is bipolar. I can only hope that he will get the help he needs now.

My daughter who is 24 and still, for the moment, lives at home with me is probably most supportive although not in a bipolar sense as she never says it. She is my motivator a lot of times. Makes me get up and do things. But she works full time and goes to school full time so not here a lot.

So I come here and bug people ............ so you're not alone! Add me to your friends list, or PM me or whatever. You truly are not alone HERE.

Thank you everyone for the support.
I feel more lonely tonight because I asked my b/f if he wanted to hear some of my journals I've been writing, but have said were private.
His response was "I don't know", so I took that as a no.
My mom is useless for support and I cut off contact from my dad at Christmas and my only brother has distance himself from family. I don't have many friends anymore either.

I don't know if it is as illusive as a light but I do think that w/ trust in a good DR. for a combination of meds,educating yourself including the things that trigger you , the determination not to give up and the support of people who care, including here on DS, you will be able to deal and have happiness.I guess it is kind of one of those things you have to always work at.I'm still in the learning stages too and even though we all have set backs I think it is possible to have a good life.

As with everyone else who has responded to you, we are here for you & know what you are going thru. Some of us have support & some of us are alone in dealing with this BUT, we all have computers &, like myself, to a lot of us this is our world, our lifeline & a new family. You're always welcome here.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

You are not alone, the strains of our conditions take their toll on every aspect of our lives.

My light is growing dim, and I am beginning to see better in the dark. The dark is calling my name.

We are all truly alone and death is our only refuge. I am sorry, but I feel the end and it is near. wish I could be more comforting.

I don't really have anyone in my life who understands anything but depression, except my shrink. I come here to be with people who are like me. You will get better. Then stick around people who don't make you feel like a freak. There will be a man who, if he doesn't understand, will at least make you feel better just being around.

I made friends here
I go to other bp meetings
Go to church volunteer at soup line
do the next right thing
stay away from alchol and drugs
eat good and excersize.
And above all else take my meds as prescribed.