This Week's Bipolar News
Will
I ever feel really secure in my life?
CNN
I have had a quite a few ups and downs in my life. I have had depression
since I was 8 years old. (I am now 26 and was diagnosed as bipolar three
years ago.) In my lifetime, I have suffered major emotional abuse and
betrayals from a variety of people, not to mention rough circumstances
(losing a job last year, and unstable conditions in my current job). I
have now gotten to a point where I've ...
Understanding
Bipolar Disorder; it's symptoms, effects and treatments
Liberty County Times
By Rochelle Beley, MS, LCPC - Liberty County Mental Health Recently, a
common term in the mental health field is “Bipolar.” Although
in the past, ...
Dying
for Help, Eyewitness News investigates teen mental health part 1
Bakersfield Now
Alissa was finally diagnosed as bipolar with depression and social anxiety.
Like all mental illnesses, a person's thinking, feeling, mood and ability
to ...
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Featured Article:
Bipolar Serenity Prayer
by Michele Soloway Sexton
I have a friend named Larry Drain, who has his own website and writes about bipolar disorder, as well as other mental illnesses. He once said that the Serenity Prayer was the best description he knew of successful recovery from bipolar disorder. I was so impressed by his version that I decided to print it here in its entirety:
God - Life is about more than me. There is a meaning and design to the world independent of what I think or feel. The first (and maybe biggest) trap of bipolar is to convince you that "it" is all about you and the measure of how things are is how you feel. "Life is not about what I can or cannot control, thank goodness, because so much of this is beyond my control." There is a "higher power." There is someone to turn to when I feel all alone and powerless and all feels loss.