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• This Site Has Now Moved To A New Address
  on Oct 7, 2011
  Thank you to everyone who has commented on posts and visited this site. In order to implement new features and to grow this site further I have decided to move this blog away from Blogger and the new web address for Bipolar Life - Gift or Curse? can...
• Which Mood Stabilizer Works Best For Your Bipolar Disorder?
  on Oct 5, 2011 in Research Into Bipolar Disorder Bipolar Disorder Poll Responses Medication
  When my daughter was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and prescribed Seroquel it was a daunting experience as I have no knowledge of Seroquel or how effective this medication would be. The only mood stabilizer that I have ever been prescribed for my B...
• Psychiatric Nurse Allocated, Seroquel Side Effects & A DLA Claim
  on Oct 4, 2011 in Bipolar Disorder and Benefits The Bipolar Child DLA The Mental Health Service The Mental Health System Bipolar Disorder and The Family Education
  It has been an eventful week since my 14 year old daughter was diagnosed as having Bipolar Disorder and Psychosis. She is now on her full dosage of Seroquel, 200mg a day and is feeling the side effects of this medication including tiredness and dizzy...
• An Apology
  on Oct 3, 2011
  Sorry for not submitting any new postings for the last few days but I have had a very busy time supporting my daughter since her diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and Psychosis. She remains off school as both the school and her psychologist deem that she...
• A Diagnosis Of Bipolar Disorder Can Be A Long Wait
  on Sep 29, 2011 in Bipolar Disorder Poll Responses Mark's Bipolar Disorder Journey Cyclothymia
  Over the last few weeks I have run a poll as I was interested in establishing the amount of time it took on average to obtain a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder. My own diagnosis took 5 years, the delay being due to a mis diagnosis of Bor...
• Bipolar Disorder - The Genetic Curse That I Have Given My Daughter
  on Sep 28, 2011 in Psychosis Bipolar Disorder The Bipolar Child Mark's Bipolar Disorder Journey Bipolar Disorder and The Family CAMHs
  Due to behavioural difficulties which I have described in previous postings, my fourteen year old daughter was finally seen by a psychiatrist at The Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHs). During her assessment my daughter explai...
• How Can I Help Someone Suffering With Depression?
  on Sep 25, 2011 in Bipolar Disorder Depression Alternative Therapy Advice
  I received a comment on my post entitled Meet My Abyss which I felt warranted a posting in its own right, as knowing how best to approach a friend suffering with depression and then to find a way of helping them is a very difficult but esse...
• Bipolar Disorder In The United Kingdom - A Struggle Compared To America
  on Sep 24, 2011 in The Mental Health Service The Mental Health System
  I received a comment to one of my postings by JS, an American who has moved to the United Kingdom and has experienced difficulties in the care that she has received for her Bipolar Disorder by the NHS in the UK. "I would say that Bipolar D...
• A Failing System and An Arrest
  on Sep 21, 2011 in Bipolar Disorder Crime The Bipolar Child The Mental Health Service The Mental Health System Bipolar Disorder and The Family Social Services CAMHs
  My daughter has finally been referred for an urgent psychiatric assessment following weeks of attempting to persuade professionals that she is mentally unwell at the moment. Prior to the events of Monday, CAMHs had been saying that although they woul...
• The Gift That Is Bipolar Disorder
  on Sep 19, 2011 in Bipolar Disorder Hypomania
  So far I have focused on the curse of having Bipolar Disorder, brought about by the negative impact of severe depression and the runaway train, hurtling out of control and through the already broken buffers that is mania. But what about hyp...
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service - Unwilling To Make A Diagnosis
  on Sep 15, 2011 in The Bipolar Child The Mental Health Service The Mental Health System Bipolar Disorder and The Family CAMHs
  My fourteen year old daughter's long awaited appointment with The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHs) proved to be the uninspiring meeting which I was expecting it to be. We met with a child psychologist and a behaviour thera...
• Gail Porter - I Am Not Absolutely Barking, I Just Have Bipolar Disorder
  on Sep 13, 2011 in Stigma
  We are living in an age in which more and more celebrities are openly talking about their experience of mental illness in an attempt to raise public awareness and address the stigma associated with it. Some, such as Stephen Fry and Carrie Fisher, hav...
• Bipolar Disorder Research Network
  on Sep 11, 2011 in Research Into Bipolar Disorder
  The Bipolar Disorder Research Network (BDRN) is a joint research project being run by Birmingham and Cardiff Universities. The research project, which is headed by Professor Nick Craddock, is investigating how genetic and environmental factors are a...
• Bipolar Retail Therapy - Not The Right Type Of Therapy!
  on Sep 10, 2011 in Mania Bipolar Disorder Debt
  It was the summer of 1996 and another couple of credit cards had landed on the doormat. I had not painted the front room for a couple of months, so in my mind, it was long overdue a redecoration. The television and computer&n...
• Bipolar Disorder and Work - My Struggle
  on Sep 9, 2011 in Mania Bipolar Disorder Depression Employment
  Holding down a job in the current economic climate can be very difficult, but what about holding down a job when you have Bipolar Disorder? Having been recently dismissed from my latest job, due to excessive sickness leave, I can not help but wonder...
• Sleep - The Bipolar Body's Early Warning
  on Sep 8, 2011 in Bipolar Disorder self help
  The majority of healthy people need approximately 7.5 hours sleep per night, though this can vary slightly dependant upon the individual. But what about someone with Bipolar Disorder? It has long been recognised that someone in a depressive episode w...
• Self Help For Bipolar Disorder And Depression
  on Sep 7, 2011 in Bipolar Disorder Depression self help
  In the majority of cases, people with bipolar disorder or depression do require medication however medication is just one aspect in relieving symptoms associated with these mood disorders. There are many other elements which are also n...
• Meet My Abyss
  on Sep 6, 2011 in Depression
  Depression is a mood state that I have battled with now for the last twenty five years. One of the questions that I have been frequently asked when I am in a depressed state is to describe how I am feeling, something which at times is very diffi...
• The Stigma Of Bipolar Disorder
  on Sep 5, 2011 in Mental Health Discrimination Stigma
  "When I was told that you had Bipolar Disorder, I was worried about letting my child go to your house to play with your daughter. Now I've spoken to you, I'm not worried anymore as you seem pretty normal really." This remark was actual...
• The Beareavement Process of Bipolar Disorder
  on Sep 4, 2011 in Mark's Bipolar Disorder Journey
  The biggest challenge I had when I received my diagnosis in 2010 of Bipolar Affective Disorder was one of bereavement. The psychiatrist telling me that I had Bipolar Disorder and that although my condition can partly be managed with medication and ta...

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