July 30th, 2009 
admin It has been a long week. This is the second week of my daughter’s band camp and we have a potluck dinner tonight. It gives them time to reveal their field show to the parents. I don’t like being in public and being surrounded by tons of strangers makes it much worse. I am not [...]
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No Comments » July 29th, 2009 admin A new study by Thomson Reuters has discovered that patients with bipolar disorder are “three times more likely to experience trauma or adverse reaction to treatment.” Patients with a mental illness have a greater risk for a wide range of medical conditions. This study analyzed the insurance claims of more than 600,000 unidentified Americans. View [...]
Posted in About Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar 2, Bipolar I, Cyclothymia, NOS Tags: about, ailments, all, bipolar, conditions, greater, higher, illness, medical, mental, patients, risk No Comments » July 28th, 2009 admin They say I’m crazy like it’s a bad thing. I want to say right off the bat that I am open and honest about my illness. I am happy to tell people that I have bipolar disorder and explain to them what it is. I think this helps to reduce the stigma associated with being [...]
Posted in About Bipolar Disorder, Agoraphobia, Bipolar 2, Bipolar I, Cyclothymia, NOS, Panic Disorder, Psychosis Tags: about, all, bipolar, illness, mental, stigma 2 Comments » July 27th, 2009 admin The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) recently released the 2009 scores for the public healthcare system in the United States. The country as a whole received a D and 6 states received a failing grade. Not one single state received an A. If you have ever used the public healthcare system for treatment of [...]
Posted in About Bipolar Disorder, Agoraphobia, Bipolar 2, Bipolar I, Cyclothymia, NOS, Panic Disorder, Psychosis Tags: about, all, bipolar, care, D, grade, health, healthcare, mental illness, mentally ill, NAMI, public No Comments » July 24th, 2009 admin No Kidding? Me Too! is an organization dedicated to removing the stigma associated with mental illness. Comprised of people in the entertainment industry, NKM2 was founded by Joe Pantoliano, who was a cast member in the award winning HBO series, The Sopranos. I have always felt that if celebrities would lend their voice to the [...]
Posted in About Bipolar Disorder, Agoraphobia, Bipolar 2, Bipolar I, Cyclothymia, My Personal Experiences, NOS, Panic Disorder, Psychosis, Symptoms Tags: about, all, bipolar, celebrities, illness, Joe, mental, NKM2, No Kidding Me Too, Pantoliano, reduce, Sopranos, stigma No Comments » July 17th, 2009 admin If you have recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, you will soon learn that there are a variety of treatment options available. Do you think you may have bipolar disorder? Are you searching for an online test or screening? Visit: http://www.healthyplace.com/depression/nimh/bipolar-screening-test/menu-id-1409/ While online tests and screening tools can identify potential symptoms, they cannot diagnose bipolar [...]
July 16th, 2009 admin Sometimes I feel like no matter how hard I try, things just aren’t going to get any better. Today is one of those days. My husband has always been the one person I am completely honest with. I have always told him exactly how I was feeling and I thought he tried to understand what [...]
Posted in My Personal Experiences Tags: about, all, bipolar, family, hypochondriac, Psychosis, rant, Symptoms No Comments » July 15th, 2009 admin HBO will soon air the heart-wrenching story of Evan Scott Perry, who lost his lifelong battle with bipolar disorder on October 2, 2005 by jumping from his bedroom window in New York City. The documentary, Boy Interrupted, is directed by his parents, Dana and Hart Perry. They share the intensely personal story of the life [...]
Posted in About Bipolar Disorder, My Personal Experiences Tags: about, all, bipolar, documentary, HBO, suicide, teen No Comments » July 13th, 2009 admin Oh, the things medication used to treat bipolar disorder do to your brain. I have had much worse side effects while taking other medications but this is down right annoying. I don’t feel like there is much difference between this and psychosis. Psychosis is when the lines between reality and imagination are blurred and it [...]
July 9th, 2009 admin I am headed toward a major meltdown. Every little thing annoys me and things that would normally annoy me make me angry. And, of course, there is the reappearance of “sensory overload”. Anything other than complete silence strains my patience and I have found myself covering my ears and closing my eyes quite a bit [...]
Posted in About Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar 2, Bipolar I, My Personal Experiences Tags: about, all, bipolar, loud, overload, sensory, too 1 Comment »
