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39 Lessons Learned from My Bipolar Life
by Michelle Montoro
Recently, I have been thinking an awful lot about the journey that brought me to this current place in my life. The friends who have come and gone. The friends who have remained or reconnected. The friends who are distant memories. The relationships that I had. The ones that ended amicably. The ones that ended disastrously. The ones that just ended. The paths that I chose. The easy ones and the difficult ones. The decisions that I made. The good ones and the bad.
My experiences, each and every one of them, and my perceptions of these events, and the way in which I handled each one at any given point in my life, have molded me into the person that I am right now. And there are many years left, many more experiences to have, many more people who will come and go who will affect me in some way. I may not be the exact same person as I am right now 20 years from now, 10 years from now, or even 5 years from now. I know I certainly am not the same person I was 5, 10, and 20 years ago. In fact, when I recall my life, my being from years gone by, I often don’t even recognize that person.
For some reason, my memory tends to be quite vague. There are even some periods of my life that are blacked out and I can recall absolutely nothing. Studies exist that will say that Bipolar Disorder can have this affect on…
