Why would anyone go all in on self-improvement if they haven’t accepted what supposedly needs to be improved? Like many of us, do ...
I took a long break from social media and returned to dozens of videos saying Bipolar 2 is harder than Bipolar 1 and I am beyond intrigued as to why ...
Lithium is not commonly used during pregnancy, but for a subset of women with bipolar disorder, it is one of the most effective mood stabilizers available. ...
I received my bipolar disorder diagnosis when I was 17. For years, I cycled in and out of depressive and manic episodes with no clear answers from ...
The ketogenic diet has been the talk of an area of something called metabolic psychiatry over the last few years. There are those who think that ...
you are someone who knows someone with bipolar disorder, or have bipolar disorder, these are things that are hard to explain: The amazing energy ...
Bipolar medication may work well for months or years and then seem to lose its effect. People often call this “medication tolerance” or say they ...
If you love someone with bipolar disorder—or you are living with it yourself—you already know that words can either help someone feel ...
Before I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I was misdiagnosed with major depression. It’s extremely common for individuals with bipolar to be ...
I run from pain all the time. It’s what happens when you live with pain all the time. And you’ll never hear me say that the pain of bipolar is a ...
The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Physical Health (Firth et al, 2019) has demonstrated the increased physical health risks that ...
“I only know that summer sang in me a little while, that in me sings no more.” That excerpt from one of her sonnets expresses how much poet Edna St. ...