Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Cassie Hypo/mania is a special place, life is just fantastically great. I am the life and soul of the party, laughing and joking whole-heartedly. Others dance with me to my infectious tune, everything in life feels bright, warm, and sunny I hope this doesn’t end any time soon. I Continue Reading
By Amysboarderlineworld Living with mental health issues is strange. It’s painful, lonely, sad, spontaneous and even exciting! Until I was diagnosed around five and half years ago I never knew I had mental health issues. I knew I was different. I felt different things to other people. And I would 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
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.
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.
Life was beautiful. It was the last week of the month. I looked up at the top of the building and thought, ‘I sure would like to jump off that!’
I hit rock bottom. Alone on a bench, with half a bag of cocaine, a few cigs and a completely battered mind after another four day bender.
Bipolar is awesome! A lyrical genius, ideas of grandeur – until they ram a needle in yer. Then comes the crash. Longing for your life to be over in a flash.
A poem for my daughter, from her bipolar mother. It’s incredibly difficult for children to understand mental illness, and parenting can be hard.