How to lead a quality life with bipolar disorder*?

I was asked to write a few lines for a Slovene daily newspaper last week, so I thought I could expand on this subject in my blog. Those who have read my self help book about my experience with mental illness already know the sequence that worked for me: 1. Accept the fact that you have bipolar disorder (or any other mental illness). 2. Find a psychiatrist that you feel you can build a good doctor-patient-relationship with and listen to him/her. 3. Separate your mental illness symptoms from your personality traits. 4. Leave the bio-chemical aspect of your illness to your psychiatrist and the prescribed...