January is for living (despite myself)

My problem stems from not knowing how to live long-term. I’ve spent most of my life holding myself together a year, a month, a day at a time, telling myself that if I can just make it to next week, things will get better. I’m hardly alone in that phenomenon, but unfortunately for me I also combine it with the unshakeable but contradictory belief that I’m going to die soon. My earliest memory of that self-morbidity was...

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This was a strange thing to write publicly but I really wanted to talk about how it feel to be bipolar on World Mental Health Day.

The word bipolar means ‘two extremes.’ For the many millions experiencing bipolar disorder around the world, life is split between two different realities: elation and depression. So what causes this disorder? And can it be treated? Helen M. Farrell describes the root causes and treatments for bipolar disorder.

(This is a good explanation though uses that “productive member of society” phrase I hate)