Mental Health Support

As was mentioned above there are different degrees of the illness and people with a bipolar diagnosis will often exhibit different symptoms. And how those symptoms manifest themselves in ones thought processes is different for everyone. For example, psychosis is a part of my illness but a lot of people who have bipolar disorder do not experience that. From what I can tell from here you don't seem to be, but you still have that diagnostic interview(s) to go through where you might even find out that you don't have bipolar disorder. But as you say, it seems to fit. We will see.

So a person can be crippled by this illness or go on to live an extraordinary life. I think you and I are more toward the extraordinary end of the spectrum. I think we both will have good lives.