Very Frustrated with my Bipolar cousin right now

[Neoma]

3. I stopped wanting to go off my meds after I got the right ones.

Mania can be described as a huge self-esteem boost sometimes. You can do anything with your life! Including curing your own disease.

Over the years, I've wanted to be an archeologist, astrophysist, animator, eye doctor, neurologist, contortionist (still working on that one...) I want to have an Internet comic, a band, a podcast radio show! I want to write a book every week and read a book every day. I want to save the environment and start a revolution!

You get the idea...my mind is the perpetual motion machine that wants to do everything at once or nothing at all. Once I want to do nothing at all, I'm just depressed and waiting for the next manic boost. Why fight a disease that isn't always cruddy? Mania is a high. Though you learn to dislike it after awhile...