So yeah. This is the (probably will lose track of it) blog of a bipolar 2-type human who also suffers several other mental disorders (depression, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder) who actually works at a job and is pretty much functional in what people think of as daily life. I'm learning how to accommodate my brain by doing quite a few things, but it took a long time to get here. A million years (15) ago, I met my ex-husband, who, on the whole, is not a terrible guy. Soon into our relationship he noticed that I needed to sleep more than the average human, and he was determined that there was something medically wrong with me that we needed to fix. He never agreed with my mother that I just plain sleep more, even though I have since I was a baby. Long story short, he embarked on reasons to figure out how to "fix" me: sleep study psychotherapy medication ... pretty much none of it worked for a while. By the time the medication started worki...