Bipolar. Does that term frighten you? Would you avoid someone you knew had that diagnosis? What picture comes to mind when you imagine someone who suffers from a bipolar mood disregulation?
Bipolar, or manic depressive illness has been around forever but the diagnoses are relatively recent.
I have bipolar illness. I didn't know this when I was younger. How much easier would life have been had there been a medical term for the ups and downs that started when I was younger. That's what this blog will be about and hopefully this blog will serve as a kind of forum for discussion.
All I can write tonight is this brief introduction. I'd love to hear from any of you with any thoughts or comments or experience in re: to any mood dysregulation: bipolar, borderline personalisty disorders, schizophrenia. Only by understanding can we start to help each other and those we love and care about.
