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Fourth Annual Bipolar Disorder Awareness Month February 2012

February 2012 marks our fourth annual Bipolar Disorder Awareness Month. As always, I will be accepting guest posts from anyone who has been affected by bipolar disorder. I’m looking for personal experiences, insight on the disorder, new medical findings – anything related to bipolar disorder. As many of you know, our host disappeared overnight without [...]

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Lamictal Withdrawals

Day 2 of no medication. Let the Lamictal (lamotrigine) withdrawals commence! Oh wait, they already have. Withdrawals are always fun but I did manage to do some research and I am finding that some of the things I didn’t even think were withdrawal symptoms really are. Bear with me. I may not make much sense [...]

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All About Bipolar: Alcohol and its effects on bipolar disorder

There are still quite a few people who simply do not believe that drinking alcohol while taking medication used to treat bipolar disorder is a very big mistake that can have dire consequences. I’d like to provide proof that it should be avoided in the hopes that it will help others to better manage their [...]

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All About Bipolar: Anger – The Most Common Emotion

  When you have bipolar disorder, anger is an emotion that is very easy to give in to. It tends to be the most common emotion and it’s usually what most emotions end up being displayed as. For me, it’s the easiest emotion to deal with. This might be because I don’t “deal” with anger; [...]

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