With bipolar disorder, attaining long-term mood stability comes with time, hard work, and many starts and stops. Here’s how to get started. Getty Images
With bipolar disorder, attaining long-term mood stability comes with time, hard work, and many starts and stops. Here’s how to get started. Getty Images
With bipolar disorder, attaining long-term mood stability comes with time, hard work, and many starts and stops. Here’s how to get started. Getty Images
Bipolar disorder recovery can be a winding road. Writer Scott Ninneman shares his journey in this moving post about how he found stability.
I know this for sure: I am mentally ill.
Here's how The Mighty's bipolar disorder community answered.
People often misuse words like depression and ADD. Sure you might be having a bad day, but are you really depressed? Likewise, you might sometimes struggle to concentrate, especially if you're doing something boring, but does that really mean you've got Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)? We all have our little quirks and idiosyncrasies, but does that make us all Obsessive Compulsives? In order to differentiate between what people say about mental illness and what mental illness actually feels like for those who suffer from it, Annie Erskine has created these five useful comics for College Humor.
"I know the darkness of this bipolar disorder, but I want to put a positive light on this illness."
What is bipolar disorder? Sometimes, it's hard to notice the symptoms, but they can be triggered by substantial loss, like that of a friend. And once you discover you have this mental illness, living with bipolar disorder changes things forever.
Bipolar disorder directly impacts the brain. With this condition, you have alternating phases of mania and depression. Though bipolar disorder can have a profound effect on your mood, this disorder affects virtually all other areas of your body as well. Here’s how bipolar can affect different areas of your body.
Are you stuck in your comfort zone? Here are some tips to help you become 'unstuck' and continue on your journey toward stability. Getty Images By a
Is there a deeper reason why we ended up with a narcissist? Could it have had something to do with a Soul Contract that was set up before this lifetime?
