Ignorance is wonderful isn’t it?
I mean, its really nice to get up in the morning, be depressed and ratty and get a freind demanding to know why I’m taking my ‘PMT’ out on them. I remember that a couple of years ago, I wrote an article that explained, in fairly non-threatening language, what it [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Op-eds on April 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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There are two incredibly powerful words in any language – and no matter what language you encounter, there’s bound to be a way to say it (though, maybe not in two words ;)).
More powerful than I want, I [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Mental wellness, Op-eds, free reprint on January 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
Bi-polarbears is fast approaching its fifth anniversary, though, you wouldn’t think it from looking at the archives. Most of what we’ve removed was down to reading it back and finding it didn’t fit with our updated mantra.I was reading back over our first newsletters just over four years ago, and wondering whether we were deliberatly [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Mental wellness on January 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
How are you handling your resolutions this year?If like the majority of the population (of those that actually make resolutions), you find yourself failing in your pledges, for various reasons (good and bad) and you want to try something new, or want to actually manage to make good on your promises, there’s several things you [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Mental wellness on December 27th, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m going back to univeristy this Autumn. I’m going back to study Creative writing and Criminology (which has lots of Psych and sociology mixed in!). I’m so excited, but it means I may be a little more scarce than usual. I will, of course, try to do as muc as I can, and if you’d [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Resources, and more on August 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
From Stircrazy
People with bipolar disorder — or manic depression — suffer from an accelerated shrinking of their brain, researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found.
…”Although we do no yet know the cause of this brain shrinkage, it may be that repeated episodes of illness harm the brain and lead to the decline. Another possibility [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Mental wellness, Op-eds, Resources on July 30th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
(authors note – we’ve spent the last several days retrieving and reposting some of the content we used to have on our various site incarnations and I thought this was worth running now, instead of back in the archives)
Someone said that she was about to ask me a dumb question this month and then proceeded [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Op-eds, Resources on July 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There are three simple things you can do to support your mental health and wellness, no matter what diagnosis you have.
The first is to STOP.
Stop running in circles - stop torturing yourself, and others and stop telling yourself that you can ignore it and ‘it’ will go away.
The second is to accept.
Denial in all forms [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Mental wellness, Op-eds, free reprint on July 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve spent the last year and a half or so researching books, and writing, but time and again I come back to what makes bipolars so special.
I’ve discovered that there’s no one profile of bipolars. There’s no one way to spot us, or others - and we’re all equally unique. Which means that the last [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Op-eds on May 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
Since the release of Pictures in the Dark, we’ve had lots of praise and encouragement for our work as ‘proactive’ bi-polarbears. But I’m wondering if what we’re being praised for is actually proactivism, or just simple common sense.
I’m 28 - I turned 28 last November. I’ve got the common sense of a puppy in a [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Mental wellness, Op-eds on February 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
