Hi everybody. I’ll try to keep this short because I have a tendency to rant…

Quick background info: I’m 23M, currently live in a country that is not my home country, I am uninsured* in this country, and I do not have access to regular or stable WiFi.
*: France. I would be reimbursed but the process is incredibly long and arduous.

I’ve recently found out that one of my parents is diagnosed bipolar (not sure which type, our relationship isn’t very open about such things).

Since realizing I’m genetically predisposed to being Bipolar, some things have made a lot more sense in my life, including episodes of what was clearly undiagnosed hypomania with all of the usual characteristics. I’ve also been depressed for as long as I can remember (earliest episodes beginning around 12-13). I believe I also had an extremely mild hallucination yesterday while I was having a particularly rough morning mentally.

I am unable to seek any sort of mental health help for st least another 2-3 months, and I currently have little to no support network in my local community in France. How do you all recommend coping with symptoms in such cases? Starting anything here would take too long, but my misery is unbearable most days and I just want some way of coping in the interim.

Thank you all in advance. 

PS Self-harm or anything more permanent is NOT an issue. I take horrible care of myself, but I do not actively seek to hurt myself. Seeing some of the other posts made me feel it might be good to mention this.