Live, Thrive, Survive with Bipolarbears
Its not just a slogan, its a way of life
If I’m not careful, I get to be very opinionated about labels and stuff. I was going to do ‘why it’s dumb that most bipolars are being reclassified as borderline’ but…I’m grabbing for any positive posts I can make. Though, to be fair, because of how I describe some of...
I suspect this isn’t the article that many people are expecting, as I’m not going to be making my predictions on what things will look like when the world settles down after the pandemic, and vaccines and everything else. Instead, I’m going to be talking about my new normals, because...
(I’ll touch on being 18 this year in another post!) I’m going to try – again – to do an AtoZ of mental health, though, I’m hoping to focus more on positives, but I’ll be talking about some serious topics too, like bullying, CPTSD and psychosis. But I’m hoping to...
Ah…a fun one. Bi-polarbears will move to being a little less personal after the AtoZ, but I wanted to talk about boundaries because in short, they’re important. For now though… Boundaries are hard Boundaries are hard, because you’re having to say no to people that aren’t used to it, and...
In 2003, when I started this site, the stigma of being a manic depressive (soon to be changed to bipolar disorder) was so much that even though I was honest and open about the fact that I was diagnosed as bipolar, a lot of it was defiance. My life wasn’t...