Tag: bipolarbrave
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Missing The Mark: When Finding The Right Diagnosis and Medication Isn’t The Answer
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True Healing Is Wholistic Ultimately, our brains are just another organ and cannot be transformed simply by adding a certain medication. No, we’re much more complex beings than that. We are made up of mind, body, heart and soul. The mind is chemically-based and cognitively-functioning, processing information and the physical…
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What Most People Misunderstand About Mental Illness
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“Popular” to Have Mental Illness? When I tell someone upon initially meeting them that I’m bipolar, and they jump to identify themselves as bipolar as well, I take it with a grain of salt. This is not to say they aren’t bipolar, they very well could be. But most people…
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10 Reasons Why You Should Invest In Your Mental Health
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The benefits of taking care of our minds may seem inherent to taking care of your overall health, but there is still a resistance to taking the steps to improved mental care. Allow me to review ten sound reasons why you should invest the time, energy and resources into your…
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Symptom of Psychosis #1: Paranoia
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Paranoia is one of a few psychotic symptoms that accompanied my bipolar disorder type I in the worst of my episodes. It always pushed me over the edge of reason, while at times I tried to deny it. It’s hard to hide something you feel so strongly. Not Crazy…Just Creative…
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Voices: Whose Are You Listening To?
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Whose Voice? Impressionable human beings hear voices every day from different sources. Aside from our own thoughts, the human mind is susceptible and able to “tune in” to different “channels,” if you will. As a taboo and touchy topic, when I say “hearing voices”, I don’t strictly mean in an inner-ear of…
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The Element of Recovery & Tips To Keep Bipolar In Remission
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Recovery, Not Relapse! There’s a phrase that really bothers me that I was taught in training for my community support caseworker job. The saying goes, “Recovery is the exception, not the expectation.” Uh, really? That sounds like we’re just setting someone up to fail who therefore believes they’re going to…