ABSTRACT
Support meetings are valuable places to get the most current information on this illness if they have an educational or lecture part to the meeting led by a medical professional. Our doctors may be excellent sources of information assuming they put out the effort to keep up with all the latest on bipolar illness and its treatment. Although books may be great places to find out about this illness, meetings have people with real illnesses that you can see firsthand. Support groups have helped me to see my illness in the context of many others’ illnesses. I know how my illness “fits” within the broad range of symptoms of this illness, and I have a clearer idea of the spectrum of mania and depression.
