Been gone for a while...rebuilding

I struggle with this also. So much has been taken away because of my illnesses, I understand how hard it is to keep rebuilding, especially with the looming uncertainty of when I'll be knocked down again in the future.

I was recently trying to find my own answers to how to keep going and I came across the idea of radical acceptance. Basically, imagine that you we were wrongfully jailed for life with absolutely no chance of appeal. You have two choices- you can either fight and fight and stay angry and depressed for the rest of your life; or you can try to build some kind of life for yourself inside that jail. Obviously, no one wants to have to live their life inside a jail compared to the outside world, just like no one wants to live with bipolar everyday, but we don't have a choice in that.

There is more to the idea than that, but that is basically it. I can't say it has been helpful to me yet (I really only just discovered this idea a couple of days ago) but to me there is something undeniably true about us having a tiny little bit of control in a situation where we overwhelmingly have none. Bipolar is so hard to live with as it is, I don't want to add layers of feeling sad, guilty, wronged on top of what already sucks.... I wish it were this easy to put into action