Quoted from her family about Naomi Judd, American country music star, who died earlier this year by suicide and who lived with PTSD and bipolar it is revealed.
Yes, bipolar disorder is unfair.
Just when you think you have things back on track – it can take me anything from six months to a year to regain confidence that my thoughts are valid and not some artifice of a diseased mind, leading me up some bipolar garden path or another – it reappears.
Just when you are feeling productive and on top of things and perforce have to question if this is real or yet another prodromal symptom to be managed.
And dogged because there is no let up – it keeps coming back, sometimes after months, other times after a decade.
So not only unfair, but exhausting, constantly checking yourself, your thoughts and your feelings.
Why can’t a good day just be a good day?
People past and present living with bipolar
Touched with fire: by Kay Redfield Jamison (opens in Worldcat library catalogue)