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, ‘fashionable mental health’ and celebrity

November 11, 2013

Recently I’ve noticed a bit of a backlash to celebrities coming out about their mental illness, the most recent being former presenter of Springwatch Bill Oddie, and his belief that celebrities don’t do a great deal of good regarding mental health awareness, stating, “I fear that it [mental health] has become something of a 'fashionable’ condition to have in this day and age.”

Um, okay.  A few things before I continue.

Oh, to be Norman

October 17, 2013

SarahI was feeling a bit muddled up earlier today and I texted someone to say ‘I wish my brain were normal’ but autocorrect turned it into ‘I wish were my brain were Norman’. I find it reassuring that even my phone objects to the premise of me having a normal brain.

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