Category Archives: Achieving Remission
Happy new year to everyone. Thanks to all for joining me for a wonderful year of information, interaction and debate. I have learned a lot and I hope you have too. But in case you missed it, here are the … Continue reading
A little while back I went through an amazing phase of remission. I started a new medication and it worked like magic in a very short period of time. In short, it was a miracle. At the beginning, I kept … Continue reading
So, interesting thing. Mental illness has a tendency to run roughshod through a person’s life. Everything in life goes by the wayside to make room for the unbearable being of crazy. You know you’re alive because you’re in pain. And … Continue reading
Today I read another article on a reasonable person’s assertion psychiatric medication doesn’t work. The evidence is thin, they say, and the studies don’t always show a meaning difference between the drug and the placebo. According to them, everyone with … Continue reading
People with mental illness have various levels of functioning. Sometimes a good day is when you talk in your group therapy session at the psych ward. Sometimes a good day is getting out of bed. Sometimes a good day is … Continue reading
I know that as a semi-public person with bipolar disorder I am supposed to beam hope. I am supposed to remind people of it, write about it, speak about it, and give it to everyone wrapped in a shiny happy … Continue reading
Bipolar disorder, by its very nature, is not routine. People become manic unexpectedly and people get depressed unexpectedly. And during depression or mania, people become even more erratic in all areas of their lives. So if bipolar disorder exists outside … Continue reading
by Natasha Tracy
Natasha Tracy
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- About Natasha
- Achieving Remission
- Antipsychotics
- Being Crazy
- Bipolar Diagnosis
- Bipolar Treatment
- Bipolar Video
- Brain vs. Mind
- Coping
- Denial
- Depression
- Desire For Remission
- Doctors Giving Up
- Drug Information
- Fault
- Gratitude
- How Others See Bipolar
- Hypomania
- Impact of Bipolar
- Interview
- Loneliness
- Losing Friends
- Medication Safety
- Medication Side-Effects
- Myths
- Non-Medication Treatments
- Talking About Bipolar
- Talking to Doctors
- The Price of Publicly Being Bipolar
- Understanding Mental Illness
- Writing
