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Re: How To Stop Those Who Clearly ARE NOT Bipolar From Thinking They Are (It's not a COOL thing to have)

See now, I'm afraid after listening to a speech about it, I'd be one of the ones walking up and saying, "Hey! That's me!" And I would have know idea what I was really saying. So today I have been looking it up for over and hour on the internet, and still I wonder if it's possible...

Posted to Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Forum) by alyb on 02-22-2008
Fighting The Flashes (A Poem)

Alright, for those who don't know (which I'm sure is most of you), I am a musician. This is a song I wrote about dealing with relationships and having to factor in the whole bipolar issue. For any of you who have done it....it is rough....so hopefully you can identify with it. A song for my last...

Posted to Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Forum) by fightingtheflashes on 02-18-2008
How To Stop Those Who Clearly ARE NOT Bipolar From Thinking They Are (It's not a COOL thing to have)

I was diagnosed Bipolar, OCD (which is comorbid), and Generalized Anxiety Disorder NOS all at sixteen, after a couple stays in a state hospital. I had been going to counseling with a doctor who said he THOUGHT I was bipolar. I had been on some medication for so I knew, at sixteen, what it felt like to...

Posted to Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Forum) by fightingtheflashes on 01-06-2008
Re: Entering my 1st Manic Episode

I think the most important thing we can do is to develop a support network of people we can trust including health professionals, friends and/or family. We need to learn about our disorder and be willing to ask questions. We can't afford to sit back and let other people take care of us. Sometimes...

Posted to Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Forum) by polarpaul on 09-22-2007
Re: Entering my 1st Manic Episode

I could post more about my experience in the hospital too if people want. I think I'll spend the rest of this post answering Amata's question: In what ways do you believe that your first episode continues to affect your life? I was very disoriented after the manic episode as well as having a...

Posted to Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Forum) by polarpaul on 09-12-2007
Re: Entering my 1st Manic Episode

In the fall of 1981, my brother, mother, and father went to New Zealand for my father's sabbatical. My younger sister was going to school at UC Davis. I was a junior at UC Berkeley. I lived in the Norton hall dorms. With the exception of living with my grandparents, working for graduate students...

Posted to Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Forum) by polarpaul on 09-12-2007
Feeling Midnight Blue

A self portrait digitally modified to reflect how distorted I felt during a manic episode.

Posted to Polar Paul (Gallery) by Caitlin on 09-07-2007
Crayola Crayons

64 Crayola Crayons and a Fistful of Peanuts cry all of cry on colors we see do not exist outside of you or me moods shift born to light death in darkness Do we see more or flounder in Pig Pen's dusty wake? Here's a dime Lucy. Keep the change and your advice. Poems ©polarpaul 2006

Posted to Polar Paul (Gallery) by Caitlin on 09-07-2007
Rachael, 15, Queensland

Bipolar or Depression the Label. I have ADHD, Aspergers, Asthma, Tremours, Sleep Paralysis and Possible Bipolar as well as depression. I have lived with my life for 15 years this July. As a child I was very high & low. I never had a stable mood. Lately I have been depressed and High and it's...

Posted to Stories That Started It All (Weblog) by Caitlin on 09-06-2007
Entering my 1st Manic Episode

Although my first manic episode happened over 20 years ago, I believe it's as relevant today as it was then. My first episode started during the summer when I was a 19 year old junior in college. I was taking a series of summer school courses for my forestry major in Plumas county, California. I'd...

Posted to Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Forum) by polarpaul on 08-25-2007

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