Thanks for the kind words.

To me, I guess the recovery is in the treatment, not in the name. Getting too caught up in the "bipolar" makes it feel like a thing that is passively happening to me and not something that I can live with and treat. What does it matter what it is as long as I find the right cocktail and go to therapy and take care of myself? Id rather have it be a thing I deal with than a disease. I dont know. "Bipolar" makes me feel way more helpless than it just being a hurdle I jump over. This is the longest Ive gone in treatment after years and years of struggle, and I think the change in language has helped tremendously. I may not be articulating it quite right, but it comforts me to not have a lable and be treated for what is actually happening to me and not what happens to a generic person with my disease. So many doctors write off what you say because they think youre a cut and dry bipolar. It stops the listening somehow. Even if I am, I appreciate feeling listened to and cared for and treated like ME and not just a bipolar. Anyway. My doctor was just such a great listener and its a big loss.