Category: Books

  • 100 posts down, one archive recovery in progress, 600 drafts… Happy 21st Birthday Bi-polarbears!

    100 posts down, one archive recovery in progress, 600 drafts… Happy 21st Birthday Bi-polarbears!

    On our 21st Birthday (today, officially), I just wanted to take a minute to acknowledge that we’re slowly working through the archive. If you go back as far as 2007, there’s a lot that I said that is not accurate in today’s mental health climate, or reflected the fact that I wasn’t actually bi-polar, but…

  • G is for Goals – AtoZ Challenge 2020

    G is for Goals – AtoZ Challenge 2020

    I was originally going to write ‘G for give and take’ for my Atozchallenge 2020, but the thing is, I discovered I needed to talk about something else and taht something else is probably just as important. G is for Goals and why they’re a burden and a blessing I could talk about personality types.…

  • New member – new start 🙂

    New member – new start :)

    Hi!With the new launch, I am delighted to announce that I’m one of the new staff writers on the blog. I’m going to be writing about single parenting, postpartum depression and some other stuff.I’m also delighted to announce that I’m writing a novella to increase mental health awareness, and how sometimes, going home can be…

  • We are 17 – the retrospective

    We are 17 – the retrospective

    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 the best. Years of being…