Information and opinions on health from brokenwhole at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/75910/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/75910/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/75910/index http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20451/powers-wisely Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:02:00 -0500 brokenwhole  Header (Keith of brokenwhole, the blogger: I write a detailed introduction to myself an my main bipolar blog at the end of each posting. You'll see it at the bottom of this post. ‘I blogged throughout the whole experience, even before I knew I was bipolar, so I view my blog as a fairly unique testament about what it feels like to go through something like this.)  Blog Entry Way back when I was still extremely manic, in... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20451/powers-wisely http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20349/broken-theory Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:40:00 -0500 brokenwhole  Header (Keith of brokenwhole, the blogger: I write a detailed introduction to myself an my main bipolar blog at the end of each posting. You'll see it at the bottom of this post. ‘I blogged throughout the whole experience, even before I knew I was bipolar, so I view my blog as a fairly unique testament about what it feels like to go through something like this.)  Blog Entry This is a poem I wrote during the long... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20349/broken-theory http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20192/chasing Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:55:00 -0500 brokenwhole (Keith of brokenwhole, the blogger: I write a detailed introduction to myself an my main bipolar blog at the end of each posting. You'll see it at the bottom of this post. ‘I blogged throughout the whole experience, even before I knew I was bipolar, so I view my blog as a fairly unique testament about what it feels like to go through something like this.)  Winter released Los Angeles from its icy grip yesterday, and today, for... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20192/chasing http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20163/dont-mondays Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:29:00 -0500 brokenwhole My title comes from the song by the Boomtown Rats, about a 16-year old girl who went on a shooting spree at her high-school with the excuse that she didn't like Mondays. But you'd have had to be around my age, most probably, to know that.My reasons for not liking Mondays are more petty: it's the day our cleaners come, which means I'm driven from my house before I'm ready. Despite my requests, they come at completely... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20163/dont-mondays http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20057/wrong-reasons Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:01:00 -0500 brokenwhole By the summer of my 42nd year - the summer in which my mind exploded - I was, by measures both worldly and otherwise, a successful man. My boyfriend Ben was a very smart, good-looking, gentle-hearted guy; we were both in excellent health and had protected ourselves behind appropriately gym-worked-out bodies. Each Friday we'd leave two adorable dogs in our peaceful four- bedroom house in a quiet section of the Hollywood Hills to meet up... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20057/wrong-reasons http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20037/worry Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:32:00 -0500 brokenwhole For the second time in a few weeks, it became obvious to my boyfriend Ben that I'd completely forgotten a discussion we'd had in a morning. In each case, it was as if the slate had been wiped clean. It worried him; it worried me too.There's no doubt that some of it is due to age. Amongst all my friends around my age we've begun joking about memory lapses. But they're usually lapses in remembering a word or somebody's... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/20037/worry http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/19975/dangers-outgoing Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:54:00 -0500 brokenwhole With LA in the vice-like grip of a prolonged cold-spell (I don't think it's even reached 70 in two weeks), my boyfriend Ben and I are relying on the Democratic primary race for heat. And that was the first subject that launched us into one of our periodic enthusiastic "I agree" conversations over brunch at Eleven in West Hollywood.  From comparing the glamorous and exciting Democratic race to the palid Republican... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/19975/dangers-outgoing http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/19648/mind-ten-week Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:00:00 -0500 brokenwhole In 2006, I had a major manic episode and was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I spent last year (2007) coming to terms with my condition and learning how to live with it.In early January, 2008 I demonstrated to my psychiatrist, by means of an Excel spreadsheet I'd been keeping, that I was capable of monitoring my moods and adjusting my medication to stabilize my mood. My ten-week mind-cure project: a public experiment on my blog,... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/75910/19648/mind-ten-week