Originally Posted by Briar

Wow Leigh, that quote was exactly what I needed to hear. I was just despairing a bit thinking of how I will inevitably cycle back into depression and how easy it will be to forget all the progress I've made, or to believe it never really happened at all (wherever I'm at on the bipolar spectrum, I tend to believe that everything I perceived at the other end was an illusion). When I feel good, I'm always afraid I will eventually lose all the positive things I believe. But that quote reminded me that hope is a constant undercurrent in my life. And even if that's the only light I have when everything else goes dark, that's all I need at that point.

Thank you for that.