I am a proud mother of a 17 yr old son and a 9 yr old daughter . My son is a caring loving young man he is invovled with the local ambulance company and wants that as his carrerr choice . Which is where he belongs because he loves to help people in need. I am also the same way. My daughter is beatiful and a typical 100% girl...lol.. I am currently living in a program that i called trnstional living. I was diagnoised with bipolar now almost three yrs ago . For the first yr i battled depression almost all day everyday. After abouy a year and going through many different meds i was starting to stablize and had gained a lot of weight because of one of the meds that i was on so that sent me back into depression. The second yr i stopped the med lost my weight and started working again...thinkning that i was ready and stable to live on my own and just keep up with my meds. I had met a wonderful man and sold everything that i had to move in with him and we were to get married may of this yr, however last summer i went back down hill and i didnt do anything about it i thought that i could fix it myself becaue i have always been a fixer. Well the relation ship fell apart in Dec and the way that i dealt with it was taking too many pills. Not actually trying to kill myself but more calm myself but schawn decided to call 911 and i was admitted to the hospital i was there for 5 days during that time he broke up with me couldnt go back there i was facing being homeless my mom even wouldnt agree for me to stay with her. The first weekend that i got out i stayed with friends then called my mom on a sunday adn asked if i could just stay the night and she agreed. The next morning we went to a place called OCO which helped with people being homeless and found a program called trnastional living because i had a mental health disabliloity . It took a while but i finally got in here. For the first time i was alone nobody that i knew was around and st first that scared me , but after a while i steeled in adn relaized that i needed that to be alone. Its now been four months and i have made more progress then i have since i have been diagnoised. I am now out looking for work again i feel much more prepared. My plan is that i get a job and get my own place and then i was going to get my kids back, because i lost them because of my illness. Well just thsi week we went to court and my son is coming to live with me in the fall, and i am starting teh court proceddinsg for my daughter that will be a fight with her dad. So i have learned to live day by day and now know how to self advoctae for myself to get the most of thsi program adn am back in counseling on a regular basis that is the key , your meds and therapy.