Valentine’s Day is approaching and I won’t be taking someone special out to dinner. According to various studies, at least two-thirds of you are in a similar state. Mastering loving relationships is difficult enough as it is without a severe mental illness to contend with. It’s not just the bipolar. Virtually all of us come... Read more
Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and I have no one to send flowers to. I have two marriages that ended, plus a string of short-lived relationships. Don't get me wrong - I see the positives. Nevertheless, I could be doing better. Love is never easy, but on top of everything else, we are contending with an illness that sets us up to be... Read more
Last week, I revisited a piece I published here at BipolarConnect more than four years ago, a top ten list of bipolar myths. To my surprise, the list was not much different than something I would have written today, though I did manage to come up with three additions.The piece drew 33 insightful comments, which I will take up in a future post.... Read more
Let's play a little mind game. The experts have decided that you know more about your own illness than they do. They need your guidance. They've decided that the current DSM description of bipolar and its various symptom lists (depression, mania, hypomania, mixed) are in need of an overhaul. Help us, they are saying. What is YOUR clinical reality?... Read more
Back in Oct 2005, HealthCentral signed me on as an “expert patient” for a BipolarConnect site that at the time technically did not exist. My first assignment was an article on The Top Ten Myths of Bipolar Disorder. Seasons come, seasons go. HealthCentral quickly became one of the web’s major health sites, and BipolarConnect grew... Read more
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