The Marriage and Bipolar Disorder Authority

I have avoided this topic like the plague and honestly still am having issue about writing this particular post. This is one aspect of the illness that we did not handle well at all. In fact, we could very easily write a very exhaustive book entitled “How to NOT tell your family about Bipolar Disorder”. Needless to say, we did not handle explaining my husband’s illness to our families well at all.  There were several factors that played into this. Read the rest of this entry →

The month of May was Mental Health Awareness Month. As a result, I undertook the challenge to try to release a blog post everyday for the month of May. I hope that you’ve enjoyed these posts as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them and that you have learned some helpful information when dealing with mental health issues, specifically bipolar disorder. In today’s blog I am going to list the lessons that I have learned from this month’s challenge. Read the rest of this entry →