I don't have bipolar disorder, but I do know on particularly stressful days that the best thing exercise does is get you out of your own head - so the only thin

I don't have bipolar disorder, but I do know on particularly stressful days that the best thing exercise does is get you out of your own head - so the only thing you can possibly do is focus on is moving faster, pushing that weight harder, swimming faster, etc. Personally, if I'm exercising and can keep an internal thought dialogue, I'm not exercising hard enough. Then again, I've been a runner all my life, and we runners take great pleasure in feeling pain and finding that point where we just can't mentally take it anymore. Bottom line though, exercise is bar none the single best thing you can do for personal health and sanity (after a good night's rest of course)