Under Construction - MHWA Retreat

I was diagnosed with Bi Polar in 2003 I was angry, defiant and a downright pain in the butt. The Psychiatrist there was fantastic BUT i\during that first year he kept changing my meds. I didn't know if I wasn't sure what was working and what wasn't. Every where I went after that every doc knew of him and his work. I missed him to he got gravely ill he had to give up Psychiatry. I spent 13 years with the same therapist I fought her every step of the way. But she started me writing journals and they always ended up writing a poem. I'm was grateful for that Then she retired. We then moved. I've been through six therapists till I found a woman who was my age understood women's issues and me. I'm happy here this is where I want to be. My therapist did help me a lot shhhhhhhh don't tell her lol I learned a lot from her and use it against the five others till I met my last one.
I want to add that I've got an eye patch on because I had cataract surgery last week. Please take this in account on the writing, spelling etc...
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I'm not one to share my whole self when I begin in a new group. I'm shy and oftened ashamed to have a mental illness. My family make me feel that way for they are ashamed of me.