I'm doing well at managing my illness. I've been through the worst of times but that is past me now. One thing I feel like doing now is raising the public consciousness about it. I want to help other manic depressive people live better, and to be better understood by society. There is still a tremendous stigma against mental illness.
Many people fear or distrust the mentally ill.
Mentally ill people often hide their illness, and live in fear of being exposed. I've written a web page about my experiences with manic depression. Some of the mental health indexes have linked to it so I am starting to correspond with a number of people about it, other manic depressives or their friends and relatives or just curious people. I'm also starting to be more open about it. After I worked for Dave Johnson a couple of years I told him about it and he has been very supportive of me.