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Mark
Join Date:
2011-10-03
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1. Bipolar Life Gift or Curse?
A blog n the impact of living with Bipolar Disorder and Psychosis. The four stages of depression, symptoms of Bipolar Disorder and more.
Tags: bipolar disorder, mental health, depression, psychosis, personality disorder
Latest Blog Posts
- This Site Has Now Moved To A New Addresson Oct 7, 2011Thank 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?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 ClaimIt 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 Apologyon Oct 3, 2011Sorry 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 WaitOver 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 DaughterDue 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?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 Americaon Sep 24, 2011 in The Mental Health Service The Mental Health SystemI 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 ArrestMy 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 Disorderon Sep 19, 2011 in Bipolar Disorder HypomaniaSo 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 DiagnosisMy 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 Disorderon Sep 13, 2011 in StigmaWe 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 Networkon Sep 11, 2011 in Research Into Bipolar DisorderThe 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!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 StruggleHolding 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 Warningon Sep 8, 2011 in Bipolar Disorder self helpThe 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 DepressionIn 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 Abysson Sep 6, 2011 in DepressionDepression 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 Disorderon 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 Disorderon Sep 4, 2011 in Mark's Bipolar Disorder JourneyThe 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...