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.

I 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.