[quote=@TheDookieNut]
Mental illness is a struggle but it's not without help. There are thousands if not millions of people who are always will to help. You won't struggle on your own [/quote]

I'm sorry, I cannot get emotionally involved - Mental Health proverb. 

[quote=@TheDookieNut]
I've struggled with a GAD (generalised anxiety disorder) for years as well as ocd but I found the right people and Im slowly getting better. It's an uphill struggle but once you're at the top, remember it's a sprint back down and across the finish line [/quote]

I have been in the system so long (bipolar I), I am not looking at the system, I am the wrench that changes the bolts and nuts. With me, I have talked with a number of people over my life. Starting from the age of six, and did not get the title of bipolar till much latter in my life. Being bipolar I, it is not something that the mental health care really does not want to talk, or, even have a trained doctor looking into your case. The reason why is, I can see a doctor week after week, talk about my life, and if I live to be 90 years old: the day they fold my hands over my chest and place me in the ground -- I am still what I was the first day I was confirmed as being bipolar. Therefore, whatever a doctor can do, a nurse can do, and the medications I talk: the right will say I lived from cradle to grave in a nanny state.

Since you have generalized anxiety disorder, the offspring of a bipolar person has a 50 percent risk of passing on the illness to their child. Even if the child does not developed a bipolar disorder, the grandchildren can be effected. In fact, bipolar disorder in general skips a generation. Then the other fact is this, if you are bipolar, you have a 25 percent change of killing yourself: with medication, the percentage drops down to 15 percent. Now tell me, if you were with child with someone being the father that is bipolar, you have a 7.5 percent chance your child in your womb will end up killing itself. Now you understand why so many people that are bipolar are single, as who wants to take the risk that their spouse and your child killing themselves in the souses life-time.