bipolar
Bipolar disorder; understanding the highs, the lows and the in between.
Living with Bipolar and Schizoaffective
Trigger Warning: discussion of mental illness, and suicide Living with mental illness is hard in itself. Living with mental illness is impacts every facet of your life. It isn't just bad days or moments where you lose clarity. It's every day, always sitting in the back of your mind.
Makayla NakamuraPublished 2 years ago in PsycheConfronting the Challenges of Bipolar Dissociation
Trigger Warning: Self-harm, suicidal ideation, childhood abuse, bipolar dissociation - When I was in my late twenties, a well-meaning psychotherapist diagnosed me with dissociative identity disorder (DID). Doctors used to call DID multiple personality disorder. The diagnosis was my first connection to bipolar dissociation.
Scott NinnemanPublished 2 years ago in PsycheBipolar Disorder Can Affect Every Aspect of Our Lives
People with extreme mood swings, from severe depression to manic episodes, may suffer from bipolar disorder. People who suffer from bipolar disorder tend to have a euphoric mood, be hyperactive, agitated, and do not feel the need to sleep. During depressive episodes, people who suffer from this disorder are sad, hopeless, guilty, and/or worthless, and have low energy levels.
Milan StaffordPublished 2 years ago in PsycheWhy does Bipolar disorder ruin your Relationships ?
What is Bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder is a mental health disorder defined by periods (better known as episodes) of extreme mood disturbances. It involves extreme changes in mood that can last for weeks, months, or even years. This significantly affects the mood. People who have bipolar disorder get angry quickly and can’t manage their anger. When a mood shifts to depressive side, an individual feels sadness, hopelessness or loss of interest in pleasurable activities. Feeling empty, insomnia or excessive sleepiness, restlessness, fatigue, inappropriate guilt, poor concentration and tendency for self-harm are commonly noticed in depressive episodes.
Touched with Fire
I had read the book, all 260 pages, in a day. It was at the recommendation of a friend of mine, who was, like me, diagnosed bipolar. Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison explores the marriage between artistic temperament and mental illness. It is never specified in the book as to whether the fire is the creativity or the illness, or both. Mind you, the book makes no attempt to romanticize insanity, neither do I in writing this article. What it does do is document the clinical and quantifiable presence of psychotic illnesses in poets, artists, writers, playwrights and even mathematicians.
Ezra BerkmanPublished 2 years ago in PsycheHow I Lost and Regained the Sparkle in My Eye
Upon my diagnosis of bipolar 2 at 21, I no longer knew who I was. Everything I had thought about myself shifted through the lens of insanity. For example, I viewed my excessive energy to work 40-50 hours, sing in a choir, perform a play, and attend young adult activities during summer breaks as mania, and moments of anger, irritability, and tears as depression. Were my creativity, brilliance, and spontaneity only a product of mania? Did that mean depression was my "normal"?
Eileen DavisPublished 2 years ago in PsycheI Have a Monster That Overcomes Me
I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder at the age of 28. It's a mental health issue that becomes apparent in relationships. Your emotions go from 0 to 60 at things that seemingly don't make sense to other people.
- Top Story - December 2021
The Pain in My Heart Pushed Me to Start the Speaking Bipolar Site
“And he's bipolar. You know what that means.” My boss was 10 minutes into his gossip fest. Today's victim was one of his oldest friends. I heard a litany of all the things his friend had done wrong, and all the poor choices he had made. My boss boasted of their 20-year friendship, but I couldn't help but wonder if it really was a friendship.
Scott NinnemanPublished 2 years ago in Psyche A Moment in my Mind
She rode that feeling like it was wind beneath her wings, carrying her high over the mountains until they became too modest and insignificant to notice. This was pure bliss, she thought. She finally grasped what everyone else seemed to have, but that which she could never acquire. Granted, it was a small taste, just a sample. She knew how precious and fleeting it could be but feared the harder she held on the faster it would slip away. She wanted to embrace it, nurture it, trust it…
Falynne JohnsonPublished 2 years ago in PsycheManic Marti (Part 2)
I get along really well with kids. They gravitate towards me. I think it’s because they enjoy feeling seen and understood. Also, when I’m manic I’m basically an oversized 6-year-old.
Marti MaleyPublished 2 years ago in PsycheManic Marti (Part 1)
October 2018. Los Angeles. It was a difficult time. The #metoo movement was in full swing. I remember looking at Facebook and seeing the stories pop up, one after the other. It was powerful and devastating, important and triggering. Like so many other people, my own sexual abuse was very difficult to process because I couldn’t remember most of it. So when the stories started flooding in, it made me want to remember more, so I as well could participate in what looked like a cathartic way to release my own story while inspiring others to speak up.
Marti MaleyPublished 2 years ago in PsycheSurfing bipolar. Note #3
There is no such thing as an ocean with no waves. And there’s no such thing as a person without mood changes. However, the mood waves that come with bipolar disorder have higher crests and lower troughs.