Hate that phrase almost as much as 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps'. These are the things our world tells us when we are bipolar and the irony is these phrases kinda define what BP is. The inability, due to chemical imbalance (illness), to snap out of it or that other thing. I often say "don't you think we would if we could!" Hell yes!

I have had two days of being down and today I woke up thinking it would be a third. In the middle of my second cup of coffee I realized the dark cloud was gone and today was going to be okay. This is how the bipolar brain works, either on or off, good or bad, well or sick. I've always been able to recognize my mood. It is a little like radar where you send out a ping and see how long it takes to come back. When I am sick it comes back screaming and when I am well it comes back smoothly. And at some point each morning I determine where I am at mentally. I am much more tolerant of the bad day because I know they won't last but it can still get me with a nice sucker punch now and again.