are we a lost generation of our people;

As yet another fellow bipolar with ADHD — man, I feel this. I’m lucky in that lamictal basically eliminates my hypomanic/mixed hypomanic episodes (which I’m happy about because they SUCKED) but didn’t do much for my depressive episodes. I’m on a new medication now too, and I can’t tell whether the bouts of feeling awful I’m still getting are because it’s not working or real external factors in my life that are causing a lot of stress (capitalism), and it’s this endless cycle of “can I trust myself? Yes? No? Yes? No?” I think that ultimately there isn’t a very good way to tell what’s what other than trying to make changes in your life and seeing what helps, which sucks because I want an answer, damn it! So yeah. I’m so here for this (and so sorry that you’re going through it).