@Drewbola It is a difficult life, this living with bi polar, having lived with it since proabbly my mid teens, certainly my mid twenties nd not being 'diagnosed' until my early mid 50's (just last year) I have struggled with GP's and Psychologists for years. Being on anti-depressants and counselling as the only line of defence for 20+ years, I have learned MANY useful life skills and tools, tips and tricks for managing my condition (but that management is always barely 'enough' or not enough when I am full flight hypomanic or full sorrow meloncholic.)
I get alot of help from reading too, not just books about bi polar, rather things like mindfulness, staying present getting over shame, having courage etc. Every new reading gives me a little new something to apply to my life's circumstances. AND - it feels like I am more in charge of my own life than just relying on those times I can see a doc or psych.
I rock around from well to unwell in days and hours and weeks (not months and years) so usually I ONLY present to my doc when depressed or anxious, that is why it took so long to diagnose because we only ever discussed the deep depressions and crippling anxieties. I think while we can hope to expect our doctors to get a handle on our conditions, that it is us who has to get the full handle and be informed and make suggestions too about what may be of assitance to us. Doctors have a hard life too - they get to see people for 12 minutes, can only know what they know - and have to skill up and learn about so much. We can help them by being well informed and making suggestions too.
Being alone in an isolated area, or just being bi polar anywhere is a huge challenge, I wish you well and am glad to have met you here, I like you writing style and sens eof humour too. Billy Goats! @-karma- mentioned my poem on living with Bi Polar ... here: http://mentalas.saneforums.org/t5/Our-experience-stories/A-Poem-On-living-with-bi-polar-affective-disorder/m-p/36836#M6143
Maybe one way to move through and get your thoughts in order would be to attend to your prodigious writing talent and try to instill in essential form the experience of your life...