I have been stable since June 2018. I credit that to the right meds and working hard in therapy and going to church.

To me, stability means I have not had a bout of depression or mania that lasted at least a week. Which I have not. Yes I have felt depressed at times but was able to pull myself out of it. And I feel a bit hyoimanic at times but then I just think it is excitement

I'd have to say I've been getting stable......a combination of medication coping skills and my new tagging hobby arts and crafts rocks my pc is worth 2 K but its only worth 2K to me.......all the tubes I have are useless to everyone else......

I've had long periods of Stability throughout my 29 years of BiPolar.

2 years 1989 - 1991 Unstable - 2 Major Depressive Eps w/Psych Stays
5 years 1992 - 1996 Stable
2.5 year 1997 - 1999 Unstable - 1 Major Depressive Ep w/Psych Stays
6 years 1999 - 2005 Stable
5 years 2006 - 2010 Stable/Mix - 2 major Depressive Eps w/Psych Stays
8 years 2010 - 2018 Stable with 1 major Manic Ep - Hospital Stay, not Psych
(Single car accident, totaled car)

Stable for me is being able to work, live, volunteer, function on my own, take care of family, while managing my symptoms. Still have Depression at times and Manic Eps once or twice a year, but knowing the signs of them coming on and manage them before they take over me. Knowing my Triggers and keeping them out of my life. Taking medications that work well, having a great Pdoc relationship and using learned coping skills and different types of Therapy to keep the symptoms in check. Knowing that BiPolar is everyday and life learned living with it, is the biggest most important tool to use.

Remembering that regular life for everyone, with or without a Mental Illness has ups and downs, hardships, good and really bad times, stress and irritability and not living each day according to "stability" just living...

Stability to me means getting along with my immediate family.

BipolarPrincess, I must say I love your Icon, you have great taste!

I consider myself stable right now, maybe that's why I haven't been around as much.

I'd say I got about a month under my belt. I thank the max dose of Vraylar.

I've been stable for several years with only mild bouts of depression occasionally which I can work with my tdoc on. Antipsychotics and an antidepressant work for me. I also improved greatly when I got out of an emotionally abusive marriage and got into a stable environment.

I have been stable for two years with only mild depressive episodes. I owe my success to therapy and faith.

I count as stable no full blown maniac attacks and limited hypomania. Also no major depressive episodes.

I was really really bad for a long time. In and out of the psych ward. But I finally found a doctor that figured out my treatment. I’m on four different meds and I have treatments about every six weeks and it’s really working. Sometimes I have depression or mania or psychosis but it’s short lived. I’m better now than I have been in ten years and I am very thankful.

I have been fairly stable for a long time.... I had a hospital stay about 8 years ago for 3 weeks and it had been a few years (not sure of dates) before that

I do dip at this time every Fall it seems however I don't consider myself unstable

I think the biggest success tool for me is working with my disorder and not against it

I completely accept it and know that I need ongoing help in one form or another unless there is ever a cure and I have no problem accepting that

So that means that I accept some side effects from meds and I accept that the symptoms are part of a disorder and not something that I need to act on

When I need to I seek help and hopefully this will continue to help when things seem bleak.....xo

five or six months here and there over the last 35 yrs and boy am i gratrfull for those times luckily i am persistant and do not generally give up.

btw. there is no cure - only management sometimes if you are lucky.

I know there is no cure. I just thought we could reflect on how we are doing and appreciate the stability

I am not stable because the fact is I just had a meltdown about two weeks ago where I turned on an innocent person and railed at them and called them a nasty name. I am new to all this and do not have the experience that others have with accepting and managing their illness. But I have benefited so much from the short time that I have been on this site and I'm looking forward to making it a permanent part of my life. Stability for me would be not having this roller coaster ride of feeling normal and then descending into a turmoil of anger.