I was at that discussion group again last night. Some take home messages from that day:

• One guy told me a story that he was next to his mother when she was dying, and it made a difference for her to have someone that could empathise with her, eased her pain
• One therapist told us that in her work with bipolar people, they apparently find ordinary life to be a 'low' because it is so uncreative and unlike mania that it is dull and boring and mundane and - not the beautiful high of mania

I am feeling very head-hurt right now. I drank a glass of chianti and I think its going straight to my head.. gonna go to bed now