Campus life

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 [...]

Witchdoctors?

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 [...]

What is….?

(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 [...]

Site enhancements

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be adding articles and content to our site - complete series on depression, treatements for depression, and of course, news about our first book, and sites that we’re attaching to that
We take mental health very seriously at bi-polarbears so we’re working hard to ensure that the sites are suitable, and [...]

What to tell people

You have been told you have something called bipolar disorder. Right now, you may be feeling confused, scared or angry. Maybe you feel all three. This is okay. You have many questions and that is also okay. I will try to answer some of them for you.
What causes bipolar disorder?
Everybody’s brain contains chemicals that make [...]