Tag: recovery
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How I stay happy, not manic
It’s only in the last decade really that I have settled on ways to manage my bipolar effectively. They’re founded on routine and enjoying and recognising simple pleasures. Not that my life before was all sex and drugs and rock and roll, it wasn’t, but the ingredients that work for me now include: Mild contentment…
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Recovering from psychosis
I have experienced six psychoses in my thirty years of a bipolar life, each one different from the last and each with its own dominant theme. To my well self, these episodes can be shocking even when I can’t remember all the details, and making sense of them is quite hard. I’ve yet to meet…