Share Your Bipolar Story
We invite you to share your stories and insights with us and with other visitors to the Bipolar Blog. We hope that through sharing our experiences and insights, we can all come to a better understanding of bipolar disorder and perhaps even manage it more effectively in our lives. (Scroll down to the bottom to type or paste your story in the Leave a Reply box to share it.)
When reading and commenting on the stories and insights of others, keep in mind that we are not responsible for what others choose to post or any advice they may offer. This area is intended to be an open forum. We discourage any blatant advertising of products or services, and we may remove comments that we deem to be advertisements. When posting comments and responding to other people’s stories, please remain respectful and courteous.
Following are links to the stories that visitors have posted so far:
My Black Dog by Neil (New)
Cyndi (New)
PeterBGood (New)
D. Tomas (New)
JR: Need Help with Bipolar Boyfriend
Bipolaroni – Rita C.
Devoted to My Deprecation by Pamela D. Hood, RN
Debbie Bruce: Addiction or Bipolar I?
Manic: Dancing To A Different Tune
Tom Smith on Unconditional Love
Take Action to Change Your Partner’s Reaction
From Withdrawal to Awakening: A Continuing Journey
Michelle from Manchester, England
You’ll Never Work in This Town Again!
Christian Bonanno (Resveratrol)
Sherry’s Story: Bipolar Family
Larry and Linda Drain (Hopeworks Community of Tennessee)
Jill’s story of her daughter Bri
“The Unhealable Disease” (a Poem by George)
JD Stottlemire, author of You Me and Apollo: Hope Beyond Bipolar Disorder
Terri Cheney, author of Manic: A Memoir
Victor Kennedy, author of Hypomanic – Mad in England
David from Manchester, England
Raising Nathan (Childhood/Adolescent Bipolar)
A Wife’s Story (Married to Bipolar)
Note: We rearranged the stories to place each story on a separate page, so they don’t get mixed up with comments from other stories. If you don’t see your story on this page, check the alphabetical listing in the sidebar to the right under “Share Your Bipolar Story” and the links above. We hope you like the arrangement.
After you post your story, it will appear temporarily on this page. Within 48 hours, we will edit your story lightly (for typos only). We will not alter the content of the post. We will also move the story to a page of its own, where visitors can post their comments.
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- Larry Married to Bipolar
- Linda – Orthomolecular Cure?
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- My Black Dog
- Natalie D.
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- Raising Nathan
- Ryan M. Christman
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- Sherry’s Story – Bipolar Husband and Family
- Strength in Small Numbers
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- Take Action to Change Your Partner’s Reaction
- Terri Cheney
- The Bipolar Guy
- The Flick of the Switch
- The Unhealable Disease
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