Hi,
I posted a while ago asking if anyone knew anything about mental health assistance dogs.... well now I have one! Brody is a yellow Labrador Retriever, 12 weeks old and I'm training him myself under the programme of http://mhadogstest.wordpress.com/
He's obviously not qualified yet but he already helps me in so many ways and is learning lots of complicated tasks to help me further. It's wonderful and I highly recommend investigating this possibility if you love animals and feel like you would benefit from help with your bipolar that you're not getting from your meds etc.
If you're interested, you can follow Brody's progress on my page for him, here: [mod edit] and feel free to drop me a message if you have any questions! Hope it's okay to post this here, admins!