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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Witchdoctors?

July 30, 2007

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. [...]

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What is….?

July 23, 2007

(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 [...]

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Three steps to mental wellness – no matter what disorder

July 17, 2007

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. [...]

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We’re all equally unique

May 17, 2007

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 [...]

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Proactivism or common sense?

February 19, 2007

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 [...]

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Migranes and mental health

January 31, 2007

Recent studies suggest that there may be a stronger link between migranes and mental health disorders than was currently accepted.  Up to 40% of bipolars questioned (out of 108 patients) reported migranes – and its slightly higher in women than men.  There is now suggestion that bipolars should also be screened for migranes, and more. [...]

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Mental health

January 19, 2007

“Mental health isn’t contagious. It can be genetic. Mental health isn’t a joke Though we do sometimes laugh about it.” D Kai Wilson, talk at a mental health group in 2005 One of the biggest things I’ve found out about mental health in the last nine years is that there are no concrete answers. Its [...]

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