Bipolar disorder can make you sparkle or feel like you’re drowning in deep, murky waters. I’ve lived with it for over thirty years and here you’ll find my stories, observations and life tips on what I have learnt on the way.
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Living with bipolar
NHS change consultation – what’s in it for me?
The consultation on the NHS was launched earlier this week and I grasped the chance to share my pearls of wisdom with the internet. All…
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Memory, language and my psychosis
Language, symbols and memories play a significant role in my psychoses
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Mental health benefits of gardening (Part 3)
Slowing down helps me manage mania – gardening is one way I do this…
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Chips with everything – growing and eating (Part 2)
Gardening self-care is not just about flowers, it’s also about fresh food, albeit in small quantities. I have a track record with tomatoes, which I…
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Is gardening is self-care? It is for me (Part 1)
Someone suggested gardening as self-care for my next post – even though they hate gardening themselves. The first thing to say – the activity you…
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Give me my rapture: psychotic mania
Even now after three decades of living with bipolar, psychosis creeps up on me. I keep a mood diary, take my meds every night and…
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Taking part in bipolar research
In pre-Internet times, when first diagnosed, I read avidly about bipolar and my main source was Pendulum, the quarterly magazine of the Manic Depressive Fellowship…
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How I stay happy, not manic
It’s only in the last decade really that I have settled on ways to manage my bipolar effectively. They’re founded on routine and enjoying and…
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Getting digital health care right – a patient’s view
I have aways liked novelty, that is: so it’s no surprise that I’m an early adopter of some technologies (with an email address that is…
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