Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Jonathan Reyes It’s not all that easy talking about bipolar disorder. I mean, when you bring up bipolar and mood, most of the time people just think, ‘Ehh, my woman or man is bipolar as fuck’. But when you start to mention the mood stabilising medications that you have Continue Reading
By Mel Ball Suicide. It’s a hard word to hear, let alone write. But it’s something I have now encountered twice in my life, and in a very short space of time. Two loved ones leaving this life – and it was hard to understand why. My friend Steve I’ll Continue Reading
By rebquist I am a lithium responder, which means it works well for me. I have been on it since my bipolar diagnosis several years ago, and I have had no major side effects and no reason to be taken off of it. If anything it works well enough to Continue Reading
By Joe Doyle My father, Hugh Anthony Doyle, met Kathleen O’Meara, daughter of Joseph O’Meara, around 1974. My father moved to her home town, Newcastle, County Down, and married her on Sunday 12th September 1976. I was born Anthony Joseph Doyle on March 26th 1978. My mother died on April Continue Reading
By bipolaretaeus ‘Deciding to live’ is a journal entry I wrote at 4 am, during a crisis in 2014. It transpired I was experiencing a mixed episode, diagnosed very soon after this in hospital. I thought I’d posted this already, just realised I hadn’t, so thought I would. I find Continue Reading
By Charlotte Edmunds So, as I documented before, I am Bipolar type 2. Nope! Finally, after many referrals and many visits to GPs, longing for an answer. I didn’t feel I highly indentified with Bipolar. I had the meds; I had the diagnosis. But it still didn’t fit. I am Continue Reading
Photographer Christian Sampson has created a stunning collection of work covering how it is to live with mental disorders.