A couple of weeks ago I made a post called Stories In The News. The last part of that post was about Percy Paul, a brilliant mathematician from Canada who suffers from bipolar disorder. He's the subject of a documentary that originally aired on CBC called "Flight From Darkness". Percy found this post, and in the comments left us... Read more
Recently I wrote about triggers, and discussed the recognizing those situations and events that can trigger a bipolar episode. Currently I’m finding myself in a different situation, that of recognizing symptoms that might signal an impending mania.My biggest concern right now is the hallucinations I’ve been seeing. I frequently see... Read more
Life isn’t fair. I can’t recall a single event causing a hypomania. Promotion? Big life event? No hypomania. Feel good, yes, excited, yes, but hypomania? Nope.Now consider this Something bad happens? Potential depression. Something irritating happens? Potential mania. Fight with my wife? Potential depression. Frustrations... Read more
Yesterday I was doing my daily perusal of the news from the world of mental health and bipolar disorder. I try to spend some time each day staying up to date with happenings and developments. Recently I built a website where I aggregate news feeds into big meaningful lists of filtered articles, sorted by date and time. Each day there are... Read more