Category Archives: Achieving Remission

Mental Illness and Crazy: Creativity and Medication

March 15, 2011 / by / Breaking Bipolar

Some people believe that being crazy makes you creative (perhaps brilliant) and being creative makes you crazy. Similarly, along this line of logic is that taking medication makes you uncreative and perhaps, un-brilliant. Well, pish-tosh I say.

Mental Illness Requires Treatment: You Can’t Get Better Alone

November 14, 2010 / by / Breaking Bipolar

Many of us with a mental illness have tried to “power through” it. We have tried to muscle through the pain without getting help of any kind. Most of us don’t want to admit we need help. Most of us … Continue reading →

Holding Onto Hope in Bipolar Treatment

October 25, 2010 / by / Breaking Bipolar

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 →

Stability in Bipolar Disorder Requires Routine

September 13, 2010 / by / Breaking Bipolar

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 →

What Does Remission Mean in Bipolar Disorder?

July 19, 2010 / by / Breaking Bipolar

I mentioned what remission means for a mental illness in a clinical setting: reduction in specific, empirical symptoms by a given amount. In other words, you are given a depression “score” and remission means reducing that score by a given … Continue reading →