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Mental health and self sabotage
One of the things I’ve noticed about working with people in the mental health community is that most of us are instantly tolerant of the mistakes of others ‘like us’. There’s a lot of outpouring of support, for example, for Charlie Sheen. One of the critical problems with this though is that now, anything we…
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Life is a set of processes
My partner and I were recently talking about coding and how language, and understanding language is almost like learning to code. He argued that you can’t apply maths to language and that it was more ‘variable’ than code, which is true, but the perspective of language as a learned coding system has stuck with me…
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Seeking guest bloggers
Bi-polarbears.com is seeking guest bloggers. If you’re interested in posting for us, there’s three steps: Read our guidelines – they’re pretty light right now. Email me with a query – there’s an email address on the guidelines I’ll either reject the query or schedule it – you’ll get a user login for the site, and…
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Bipolar disorder doesn’t just ‘go away’
Editor’s note – this post got quite a lot of attention recently, so I brought it forward to today…. A recent study conducted under clinical criteria highlighted something terrifying for those of us who live with, love someone with, or care for people in our community with bipolar disorder. (extract) Relapse and impairment in bipolar…
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Bipolar disorder IS NOT PMT!
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’ out on them. I remember that a couple of years ago, I wrote an article that explained, in fairly non-threatening language, what it felt…