by Bipolarlife | Feb 17, 2021 | Personal stories
It started off like every other big party my mates and I did when we were 19yo. Smoking crack pipes filled with speed and filling our pockets with ecstasy tablets for a big day rave which we planned to continue over the weekend. We were all very excited, pumping...
by Bipolarlife | Feb 13, 2020 | Personal stories
Although my real name is not Andrew, I have chosen this alias to protect my real identity, as this story contains some very descriptive accounts of my experience with Bipolar disorder. This sickness has led me to some close encounters with suicide. I wish to protect...
by Bipolarlife | Feb 2, 2020 | Personal stories
Initially I was diagnosed with Post Natal Depression 19 years ago, shortly after I had my first daughter. The diagnosis changed later to Clinical Depression and about 6 years ago my psychiatrist of 15 years diagnosed me with Bipolar 2. At first it was a shocked and I...
by Bipolarlife | Feb 2, 2020 | Personal stories
Three years ago last month, my mind lost touch with reality in a very rapid turn of events that culminated in an acute manic episode of bipolar affective disorder. Having been diagnosed with bipolar in 2004, I had not experienced any mania or hypomania (a lesser manic...
by Bipolarlife | Feb 2, 2020 | Personal stories
I didn’t have any history of mental ill health until 2010, when I had depression and was prescribed Prozac. A year later, a series of events led me to become manic and psychotic: my relationship ended, I moved house, I experienced bullying at work for four...
by Bipolarlife | Feb 2, 2020 | Personal stories
I really had wanted to sit and to start to write my ‘story’ of mental illness earlier than this. I tried very hard to, but something stopped me each time from engaging in a first person narrative. I just couldn’t do it. It was frustrating me- why...
