Hi Wordcharmer, I'm sorry about your post not getting any responses. I just found this post today. I wonder if it got buried. I appreciate that you shared about being bi-polar. I have some understanding of the illness. I was diagnosed depression/anxiety, which is of course not the same, but as I was studying D & A I also studied bi-polar. I'm so sorry to hear that you too attempted suicide. It's a sad state of affairs. And I feel badly about your son as a stranger to you, so much so that you have to hear about his whereabouts through the grapevine. Love and Light, Lynn