Here's an excellent site on Bipolar Disease. Support groups, chat rooms with people just recently and long term dealing it, help with family problems. There are many other links medical and otherwise. I think you will find it interesting and helpful.
Hi ChimpGirl, Welcome. I'd like to recommend this book by Richard O'Conner-Undoing Depression:What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You. It is by far the best I've ever read on the subject. It's a long read but well worth it. It can be found at Barnes & Noble.
the most depression-inducing things about a JW upbringing is that they put this huge emphasis on what a terrible place the world is...so when you leave, you still carry this very negative world view, but without the promised magic fairy wand to make it all better.