The following blog posts are written by people with personal experience of bipolar disorder. By talking openly, our bloggers hope to increase understanding around mental health, break stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that – like physical health – affects us all.
Bipolar disorder: blogs and personal stories
I am a health and safety officer. I am also a writer and a poet. Way back in 1997, during those heady times before the Millennium not long after New Labour had come to power, I was diagnosed with Bipolar Affective Disorder.
Amongst the many profound quotes attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, you might perhaps not expect to find the rather straightforward musing which most of us hear at some point in our early lives: “If you don’t ask you don’t get.”
Living in London is fast paced. You don’t realise how hectic it is, until you take a breather away. Add bipolar affective disorder, however mild or severe, and sometimes you feel like not participating. My diagnosis was a huge blow in 1999; what was this ‘thing’ that had invaded my life? How could I control it and not let it defeat me?Need support?
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