Mental Health

My Personal Experience With Manic-Depression (Bipolar Disorder) – 12/05/02 Update

December 5, 2002
By Helen
My Personal Experience With Manic-Depression (Bipolar Disorder) – 12/05/02 Update

This is an update to what I wrote in late 1997 about my personal experience with manic-depression. Continuing where I left off…I was off medication and things were going fine until around late August or September, 2000. My husband started becoming concerned about me – he thought I was getting a little ‘active’ (for...
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Picturing Mental Illness

June 1, 2001
By Helen

I think I was somewhat ill when I wrote this. (This, of course, is allegorical) The Party You were so excited to be invited! At last…maybe this would lead to more friends…maybe this would open the door finally for you to be part of the “in-crowd” instead of the also-rans…there would be a lot of people here...
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My Personal Experience With Manic-Depression (Bipolar Disorder)

November 25, 1997
By Helen

I was diagnosed as having Bipolar Disorder in 1996. Until that year I had had no mental health problems. In Mid-may we went away as...
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