Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Amysboarderlineworld I have always worked. From quite a young age, I worked on weekends and evenings in pub kitchens, I did a waitress job, I did a lot of cleaning and worked as a shop assistant. Quite often as I got older I worked two jobs. I love to Continue Reading
By Giles Addison There’s an aspect of Bipolar Disorder that is acute and cannot be muted by medications. I live with it every single day, because I know the worry and fear that I have caused, time and time again. I know the worry and fear I will undoubtedly cause Continue Reading
By Jessica Evans This is a question that I ask myself to this day. Why didn’t I tell someone what was going on? Why didn’t I tell someone what I was going through? Even as I sit and write this, my mind is blank. I cannot understand why I didn’t Continue Reading
By DJ NiPPER I woke up this morning at 6 am to have my blood pressure read (along with all the other patients). This was proceeded by me staying awake until 7 am, breakfast and medication time. An announcement over the tannoy system in Cantonese dead on 7 am rattles Continue Reading
Helping to understand what it is like to live with Bipolar. What is a good day like? What it’s like to get the diagnosis? and more.
I’m writing an autobiography about my life with Bipolar Disorder over 69 years. The title will be Simply the Best and the Best is yet to Come
I hate the way you look at me, how you question who you are | I hate the way you settle down, though you know you deserve more |
To anyone going through the hardest parts of mental illness right now I would say, hang in there, it can get better, it will get better.
For the first time, I’ve been administered medication in the morning in conjunction with my bedtime meds. This is making me somewhat hazy.
Feeling euphoric speaks for itself, it’s amazing, and I struggle to let go of this feeling! But on the whole am I feeling healthy? No, I’m not.
I still fully intended to take my own life. All that had changed was the “when” of it. I would wait until after the eventual release of “The Avengers”.
I thought I could get well all by myself. I couldn’t. I fell into a dark depression. AGAIN. I hadn’t learned. I felt unable to move.