I also have bipolar disorder, I think good coping skills and positive thinking helps just as much as therapy/meds, for me, anyway. Though it tooks YEARS of training myself to cope and think positively. And I have definitely known true clinical depression, more than once. It was a hell on earth for me; I truly feel terribly for people who have no relief from it.

Great thread!
cm8883 Reviewed by cm8883 on . What are your ideas for staying psychologically healthy? I'm sure a lot of people here have the same problem I do; always working to keep depression (or anxiety) at bay. Lets face it, the world is in a rather unhealthy state right now, society is becoming shallow and trains us to seek indulgent gratification for satisfaction. Of course this only leads to more suffering, more misery. It rattles us out of our state of homeostasis. There are many other factors to be had of course, including simple neurochemical imbalance (though there are many causes we Rating: 5