It’s been a while since i’ve written here but much has happened I can assure you of that.
You will notice I have charted my symptoms at the header of my blog. These are a month and a half’s worth of symptoms which have helped me immensely in the past few weeks.
It all started when I decided to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bipolar disorder’
Get Ready to be Amazed at Australia’s Mental Health System
Posted in Depression, bipolar disorder, mental illness, tagged Depression, Zeldox, bipolar disorder, anxiety, psychiatrists, mental health system, antipsychotics, australias mental health system, CAT team on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder
Posted in bipolar disorder, mental illness, tagged bipolar chart, bipolar disorder, bipolar symptoms, mental health plan, mood chart, psychiatrists, psychologists, symptoms chart, symptoms of bipolar disorder on October 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am seeing a psychiatrist through the public system. He continually tells me I am well now after 15 months. I get so perplexed by his reasonings I decided to write down my moods every day for a month and show him what I go through each day. I refuse to believe I am “well [...]
Sharing With You
Posted in Depression, Self Harm, Suicide, bipolar disorder, mental illness, tagged bipolar disorder, contributing factors to suicide, Depression, overdosing, suicidal thoughts, Suicide, suicide prevention, suicide warning signs on September 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
What a night i’ve had. I’m writing this post in the hope that no one in my family reads it. I’ve made the mistake of telling them my blog address and every now and then they go to it to check out what i’ve been writing. I’ve thought about closing my blog down due to [...]
Bipolar Link to Older Fathers
Posted in Mental Health News, tagged bipolar disorder, bipolar link to older fathers, older fathers and bipolar disorder, sperm and bioplar disorder on September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Children born to older fathers face a greater chance of developing bipolar disorder, according to one of the largest studies linking mental illness with advanced paternal age.
Previous research has connected schizophrenia and autism with older dads, and a Danish study published last year added bipolar disorder to the list.
The new study, led by researchers at [...]
Do I Look Bipolar?
Posted in Depression, bipolar disorder, mental illness, tagged anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, looking normal, mental illness, strains of mental illness on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know it’s been a while since i’ve blogged on here. It’s been hard to get the motivation up and hard to think of new topics all the time to write about to keep readers interested.
One thing I worry about is whether I look bipolar to other people. I think I can tell when someone [...]
Nutrition Beats Mental Illness
Posted in Depression, bipolar disorder, fatigue, mental illness, tagged bipolar disorder, Chronic Fatigue, chronic nutritional deficiencies, Depression, depression and nutrition, diet changes, dietician, fatigue, food allergies, food deficiencies, Foods that Beat Depression, mental health, nutrition, nutrition counsellor, Schizophrenia, seratonin, vitamin supplments, vitamins on August 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’ve decided to go and see an nutritionist. While googling “depression and nutrition” I came across these case histories that I wanted to share with you.
Liz started suffering from depression at the age of 14. By the time she was 17 she had become extremely anxious, fearful and depressed and was hearing voices. She was [...]
What is Normal?
Posted in Depression, bipolar disorder, mental illness, tagged being normal, bipolar disorder, bipolar medication, medication, normalicy and bipolar disorder, personality traits, Zeldox on August 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some people think that bipolar disorder doesn’t dictate who they are as a person. I often find this hard to believe because almost everything I do, think or say is affected by the illness.
I even regulate my personality through medication. The type of medication I take determines my personality traits. For instance, when I take Zeldox [...]
OCD (Obsesive Compulsive Disorder)
Posted in bipolar disorder, mental illness, tagged bipolar disorder, Depression, invading personal space, Obsessive Comuplsive Disorder, OCD on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My parents came to my house for lunch yesterday. I was looking forward to seeing them as it had been a few months since we last got together.
Having listened to a podcast earlier on in the week by Captain Joe of Bipolar Nation on bipolar disorder and how visitors can disrupt your illness and home life by invading [...]
Helping a Depressed Person
Posted in Depression, bipolar disorder, tagged assisting recovery, bipolar disorder, Depression, Helping a depressed person, mental illness, recovering from a mental illness, supporting a depressed person, supporting bipolar disorder, supporting mental illness, understanding a depressed person, understanding depression, understanding mental illness on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I remember when I had a relapse of bipolar disorder about five months ago that I didn’t get a lot of support when I needed it most. My partner found it very difficult to cope with my endless sleeping and lack of enthusiasm towards life. I remember having to psych myself up for half an [...]
Hallucinations
Posted in Depression, Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, mental illness, tagged auditory hallucinations, bipolar disorder, bipolar I disorder, bipolar II disorder, dellusions, hallucinations, hypomania, Schizophrenia on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hallucinations may occur in any of the senses: auditory (for example, hearing voices or music), gustatory (for example, unpleasant tastes), olfactory (for example, unpleasant smells), somatic (for example, a feeling of “electricity”), tactile (for example, a sensation of being touched, or “skin crawling” sensations), visual (for example, flashes of light, colors or images).
Delusions (fixed, false, irrational [...]
Well Sibling Syndrome
Posted in Mental Health News, tagged bipolar disorder, mental illness, Schizophrenia, Well Sibling Sydnrome on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The devastating effects of mental illness have been well documented in films, books, and academia. But until recently there has been little said about the sisters and brothers of the mentally ill. Now researchers are starting to look at what they’re calling the “well-sibling” syndrome.
“As hard as parents may try, and they do, to meet [...]
Bipolar Poetry
Posted in bipolar disorder, tagged bipolar disorder, bipolar poetry, poetry, Rapid Cycling on July 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Writing poetry can be very therapeutic for those with a mental illness.
Poetry can allow you to tell without telling, to process difficult feelings and emotions, to help you or the reader understand complicated situations, to take layers of complicated life’s experiences and put meaning into them and to process and resolve trauma.
Bipolar Poetry is an [...]
Mental Illness in the Workplace
Posted in mental illness, tagged bipolar disorder, Depression, Mental Illness in the Workplace, Suicide, working full time with a mental illness on July 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Management read my blog. I was the highest internet user during business hours so they tracked what I was doing and came across my blog.
Apart from me feeling totally violated, they were very supportive. I have had two bad experiences with telling employers about my illness (see my post Working Full Time with a Mental [...]
Online Writing Study – The Black Dog Institute
Posted in Mental Health News, tagged bipolar disorder, Depression, Online Writing Study, The Black Dog Institute, writing on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over the centuries, many people have been naturally drawn to writing about their life and their experiences, through journals, creative writing, and other forms of written expression. Day to day life can be stressful as people strive for balance between family, friends and work.
The Black Dog Institute of NSW Australia are interested in whether certain [...]
I Can Do Anything
Posted in Depression, bipolar disorder, tagged bipolar disorder, black dog institute, delusions, delusions of grandeur, Depression, grandeur, grandiose ideas, hypomania, mania on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
People with delusions of grandeur may exhibit a drastically exaggerated sense of self-importance or may believe that they are a famous person or religious figure. They may believe they can do anything, believing they are vastly superior to those around them. They can have inflated self esteem and false beliefs in special abilities.
Delusions of grandeur can [...]
Lonliness & Mental Illness
Posted in mental illness, tagged bipolar disorder, combatting lonliness, frienship, lonliness, lonliness and mental illness, mental illness, stigma on June 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I wanted to write a post about the lack of friendship in the life of a person with a mental illness however there doesn’t seem to be a great deal of information out there on this topic.
Social stigma plays a great role in lonliness and mental illness.
In the case of families, even when family members [...]
Zeldox – A Worker’s Anti-Psychotic
Posted in bipolar disorder, tagged anti-psychotic, bipolar disorder, drugs, Schizophrenia, wonder drug, Zeldox, ziprasidone hydrochloride on June 26, 2008 | 27 Comments »
I wanted to tell you about a new drug i’m taking called “Zeldox”. It is an anti-psychotic and it’s medical name is ziprasidone hydrochloride. It is predominately used for treatment of Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder.
After much experimentation with finding the right combination of drugs for me I was introduced to “the wonder drug” from America. [...]
