Living with bipolar disorder often means facing a mind that doesn’t always feel like your own. When psychosis takes hold, even familiar faces and places can twist into something unrecognizable, ...

From lived experience to expert insight, these books open the door to understanding, connection, and new ways of seeing bipolar disorder. Living with bipolar can sometimes feel like you’re trying to ...

Whenever James M. feels stressed, he logs onto his computer and writes it all away. He says that journaling has been a major source of strength and hope in managing his bipolar 1 disorder. His online ...

In fact, other findings show that daily exercise can boost your mood and even improve your cognition. Not to mention, breaking a sweat is often free, or nearly so, and fun. It’s easy to find mistaken ...

Most of us don’t naturally default to healthy habits. It takes planning and effort, and sometimes a surge of self-discipline, to eat right, exercise, get the sleep we need, and stay on top of work and ...

In a previous blog, 6 Things I Didn’t Realize About Taking Antipsychotics, I wrote about how antipsychotic medications have affected my life. But antipsychotics aren’t the only medications I take for ...

When Sara F. of Massachusetts has a hypomanic episode, she copes okay. Her hypomania tends to be dysphoric rather than euphoric, so she gets more angry or irritable than usual — but she’s still able ...

Something changed when Sasha W. noticed the hot pink running shoes sitting in the corner of her bedroom. She was 27 at the time and struggling with the worst depressive valley of her life. As she lay ...

I struggled for months with a bipolar depression that smothered me. It felt like suffocation. The heaviness seemed to affect even my breathing: I had to consciously labor for each breath. It felt as ...

Being open about his bipolar hasn’t stopped Robert O. Boorstin from scaling professional heights; it propelled him from the beginning. Early on in what would become an illustrious career, policy wonk ...

Everyone has moments where they jump to conclusions or blurt out something they regret. But with bipolar disorder, the tendency to leap without looking is more than just a bad habit — it’s a core ...

From tracking moods to releasing stress, writing is a potent tool for spotting patterns and preventing episodes. Whenever James M. feels stressed, he logs onto his computer and writes it all away. He ...