Category: Bipolar Disorder
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DBSA Educational Webinars
Thank you DBSAlliance.org for naming me their Life Unlimited Story for January 2015. This post’s content is copied directly from DBSA Educational Webinars. DBSA webinars are online educational sessions featuring mental health experts that cover a wide range of topics from treatment options, to personal wellness strategies, to relationships. Join us for upcoming webinars or watch achieved…
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the black dog of fill in the blank
Blahpolar parses the Black Dog of depression in one of her posts yesterday. That Black Dog can be quite nasty.
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Blog for Mental Health 2015
I pledge my commitment to the Blog for Mental Health 2015 Project (blogformentalhealth.com). I will blog about mental health topics not only for myself, but for others. By displaying this badge, I show my pride, dedication, and acceptance for mental health. I use this to promote mental health education in the struggle to erase stigma. Last…
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Fried – Just Fried
Today I went to a writers’ meetup, and now I am just wiped out. Social stimulation exhausts me. I had a great time, but I’m just not up for it. Just not up for two hours of conversation. Damn fucking brain disorder. I HATE bipolar disorder. My brain is FRIED.
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I, Too, Am Not Okay
Yesterday I wrote this response to Tempest Rose’s post It’s Okay for Me to Not be Okay on STIGMAMA.COM: I, too, am not okay, and I’m okay with it. Often other people do not understand what they cannot see. For many years I wondered, do other people think like this? Do other people have to…
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What I’m Working On Now
Last Thursday, I interviewed at NAMI Orange County to participate in two of their programs: NAMI Ending the Silence NAMI Ending the Silence is an in-school presentation about mental health designed for high school students. Students can learn about mental illness directly from family members and individuals living with mental illness themselves. NAMI Provider Education The NAMI…
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Hypomanic Again
Since my interview with NAMI on Thursday about volunteer opportunities I’ve been hypomanic – so easily overstimulated. Hardly got any sleep last night and today I feel wiped out, fried, extra crispy.
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Insight into My Blog
Today Cheri Lucas Rowlands, WordPress editor and author of Writing Through the Fog, wrote Drawing Insight From Your Annual Report. On December 30th, I used information from my report to thank my readers, especially my most active commenters – Dyane Leshin Harwood, Ellen Stockdale Wolfe, and Glenn Archibald. Here’s my recap and response to last year’s statistics. 11,000 people viewed this blog last year. Awesome! Readers…
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Bipolar Disorder, My Biggest Competitor
Former Olympian Amy Gamble is my Coach on living with bipolar disorder as she sheds light on mental illness. She concludes: “I try to dream and set goals. I have accomplished a few along the way. But the really big ones elude me. I have had to learn how to be satisfied with the small…