Straight Talk about Work and Bipolar Disorder

 

This is me exactly a year ago. I was excited to be working on a new book and thought all was well. Then the bipolar hit and I had to take time off to manage my moods. By the time I got back to working on my regular writing projects and my paid work as a soccer marketer, the book was simply not possible. This is life with bipolar.

It is my goal to be brutally honest with people about life with this illness. The concept of straight talk has been there from day one when I started my BipolarHappens.com webpage in 2002.

It is ok if you have trouble working when you have bipolar. It means you are normal. It means you have an illness that needs management.

I don’t [ Read More ]

Why I Take Bipolar Medications

Just got a prescription for Seroquel. I talked with my nurse practitioner Julie Foster of Pohala Clinic – A Place of Healing and we decided that a tiny little bit of the med might help with the next onset of psychosis. Seroquel works. It’s awful in terms of side effects. It makes me hungry and it makes my teeth hurt, but I also have mania and psychosis, so sometimes it is a trade off. No one really likes psych meds. They have TERRIBLE side effects. But as you might have read from my post a few days ago, I was psychotic and crying simply from enjoying my work. That is not a typo. The work was normal and joyful and my brain decided to react with psychotic paranoia. [ Read More ]