Trump voters have a pretty novel way to handle this. When they lost to Biden they didn't get sad, they got angry. Fast forward 4 years when they won and they didn't get happy, no, they got angry again. If all you feel is anger you have no room for sadness or happiness, just more anger.
My mother, who knows and supports my medication, and understands the swings, Is always telling me about this vitamin, or that herb, and often advocates walks in nature. Before diagnosis and medication, when I was in the lows, she would try to help with some of these, especially the nature walks. I would tell her that sure, it was proven it helps, but I'f I havent managed to get in the shower for a week, do you expect me to go hiking?
She was supportive and well meaning, and I appreciate the effort, but yeah fuck many of these.
Maybe I should do that again. Bad weekend, I kind of picked a fight with my partner and it seems we have broken up. It's our third major blowup in three years - well, my major blow up. But I'm not sure we were compatible either. And he blames my bipolar all the time.
I thankfully have not gotten those sort of reactions to my Type II BPD (although I don't talk about it much), but I sure get it all the time for another medical issue I'm dealing with. Even now that I have a probable diagnosis and am making progress, I still get armchair medical experts diagnosing me and telling me what I need to do to treat it. And I know most of them mean well, but it's so damn infuriating.
Also, not a single one of them has been right. Not one.