Feeling apprehension over sharing your diagnosis, and all that goes with it, isn't unique to those just starting out with a bipolar disorder.

Do you ever just feel run down? Like non-stop? On this show Mike shares a story about having tiny batteries, and how to exchange them for bigger ones.

Energy tends to get sucked into wasted places when bipolar disorder is active. Mike shares how he stays on track even when depressed.

With manic-depression, it's natural to fall into "start-stop" patterns. But your internal drive was never designed for this. What's going to keep you moving?

In this special episode, Mike tells an unfamiliar part of the Christmas story and how it makes your status sing with life if you feel like an outsider.

There's an art and a process to "looking back" on how we spend our time. Doing this regularly is what sets you up to get anything you want.

When life is touched with mental illness, the first human instinct is to conceal reality. Mike takes this show to explain a better way to "hide" what's inside.

When you get in your own way, it's called "self-sabotage". Learn to recognize ordinary progress killers from their counterparts in mental illness.

Getting drunk. It's not always the escape you were hoping for. In today's episode, the two Michaels get down to business about being sober. And liking it.

In this special outtake, the boys get serious about the attitude that separates the "haves" from the "have-nots" in bipolar mental illness. Don't miss it!