The first thing i found quite useful, in fact more interesting than anything else was this documentry on bipolar by the actor Stephen Fry (who suffers from bipolar) It lasts for quite a while but it's really interesting to see people who suffer in similar ways in the sense that you can closely identify with what they're expierencing. Here is the link...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_ESsTVf78 if you copy and paste that in it will give you part 1 of the documentry, after that just click on each part (they are numbered) and it gives you the whole documentry.
The second thing was a bipolar self-help website which many of you may have already found,but i read it yesterday an i again found it extremely insightful and useful,so i thought i would share it with you guys. Let me know if you's read the site or watch the documentry. the link for the self-help site is http://lucidinterval.org/ . All the best.
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