Living With Bipolar Disorder
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Hypomania Highlighted
You've switched to the primal recesses of your mind, but you're in control. Or so you think.
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Depression in Detail
I said this was gonna be a 3 part series on my last post, right? Well if I didn’t, I’m saying it now. Living with bipolar disorder I’ve learned the 3 basic states of being, outside of my baseline, are anxious, depressed, and hypomanic. I want to delve into what these 3 emotional states feel like to me. With more and more people learning about mental illnesses, the human aspect is sometimes still lacking. When symptoms are discussed they are explained in very clinical ways and don’t always take into account that we are all still individuals and our symptoms don’t all look the same. I’ve already gone over what…
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Panic In Prose
I’ve been searching for a way to explain my anxiety. My depression. My hypomania. I’ve been searching for a way to explain it in a way that makes sense to people other than me. I’ve spent nights lying awake in bed describing it in masterful prose, swearing to write it down in the morning, but the words always left my head by daybreak. Of the 3, I am most pressured to explain how my anxiety feels. But, the depression and hypomania deserve a gallery in the museum of me as well. That’s why this will be a post in 3 parts. But first, my anxiety. Before I had words for…
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Nobody Cares About the “Crazy” People
The idea of being not just hospitalized, but forced into a long term psychiatric institution brings shivers of fear down my spine and overwhelming anxiety that I can't shake.
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Making Summer What I Want
Summer is my season. It's not just because I like warm weather and sunshine. It's because the summer months are the best for my mental health and the time of year I'm most likely to be "okay" for a long stretch.
