When I’m up, I’m the so social and happy and end up making a couple friends. I can maintain that energy and confidence for a little while (2 months max) and then everything goes downhill. 

I start feeling horrible, can’t get out of bed and get so down on myself. I isolate to the point that I stop contacting people and won’t even greet or make eye contact with them. I avoid leaving my house. This lasts for months so I end up burning whatever relationships I have made. 

I’m in therapy for this and am also on lamotrigine. 

How do you guys break this cycle? Any tips? It’s the thing that most distresses me.