Most bipolar people will
tell you that they do their best work in their up cycles. To outside observers, it's usually incomprehensible and full of seriously rash decisions that don't work out.
It's when the outside world
agrees that your best work is in your swings that causes problems. Witness Hazel in
GWSAs for OCD, management is usually the best you can hope for, whiich is the case for most psychological problems. Sufferers will tell you, they're never
cured, it's a matter of coping. Depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alchololism, they never "go away", but they can be managed, sometimes with medicinal help, sometimes with other therapies, usually with a
lot of support from family and friends. The recent increase of dependence on meds over the last 20 years or so has lead to the myth of a cure. Even Freud and Jung knew better!