{op-ed}Bipolar essay (uni, October 2007)

September 3, 2008

(author’s note – this was written in response to a lecturer questioning why I couldn’t move my appointment for councelling. I think I really upset her, but at least she knew that I could document appropriately – I thought it was worth sharing) Xposted to Kai@LJ and bi-polarbears Written, 10th October 2007. I wrote this [...]

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I can’t get no sleep….

August 13, 2008

One of my freinds sleeps eight hours a day, every day. When this pattern is disturbed, even by half an hour, he feels sluggish, under the weather, less creative and able to function. If he sleeps too long he’s unaffected. Another freind of mine needs seven hours sleep. She’s trained herself into that sleep pattern, [...]

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In good company….

July 25, 2008

Bi-polar disorder isn’t something that a lot of us consider an asset – but if you look at it from another angle, it’s a mark of something more. Those of us with mental health problems can count ourselves in esteemed company: Hugh Laurie Stephen Fry Axyl Rose (front man of Guns and Roses) Virginia Woolfe [...]

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Believe it or not…bi-polarbears.com is five!

May 21, 2008

Yep, we made it to five at last! I missed it too.  I was so wrapped up in University that I commented on my personal blog and completely forgot to say something here. Being five means we’ve managed, roughly, one post every two months.  Its not a great record, but its one to beat .  [...]

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Bipolar disorder IS NOT PMT(PMS)!

April 24, 2008

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’ (for my American freinds, it’s PMS – we say ‘tension’, you say ‘Stress ) out on them. I remember that a couple of [...]

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Article – why two words can change YOUR life for the better

January 12, 2008

This is a free article reprint. Please do NOT edit the resource box and ensure all links are intact. 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 [...]

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Writing, living, thriving…

January 4, 2008

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 [...]

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New year, new you?

December 27, 2007

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 [...]

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Designated drivers

October 24, 2007

I’ve had a couple of comments about a post a couple of months back, about the fact that it *seems* I’m saying bipolar disorder is comparitable to PMT. I had another editor friend go back and read it, and she’s told me that’s not how it reads, and that the person that emailed me demanding [...]

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Campus life

August 22, 2007

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 [...]

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