Tag: stories about bipolar disorder
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Tony Roberts Guest Post, “Proving God: A Testimony To His Presence Amidst My Mental Illness”
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Katie’s Note: Tony and I collaborated to guest post on one another’s blogs. Check out my guest post The Secret To Finding Sanity After a Mental Episode on Tony’s blog, DelightinDisorder.org. I entered pastoral ministry in January, 1991. In March,1995 I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. By God’s grace, and with the…
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OC87RecoveryDiaries Feature: Finding My Faith Despite Losing My Mind
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At twenty-four, I was hitting the peak of my young adult life. I was a college grad enjoying marriage and working my dream job as the graphic designer for a small business in sunny Central Florida. Yes, I was living with bipolar I, diagnosed at the tender age of sixteen, but…
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Spiritual Warfare In Manic Psychosis
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As I think back to my frame of mind of psychosis, I am familiar with the voices in my head that blew up my sanity. I am familiar with the “sense” of evil that seemed to follow me wherever I went while fighting not “against flesh and blood, but against principalities,…
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BipolarBrave.com: A Year In Review
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I’ve officially had BipolarBrave.com for a year now and what a year it has been. In honor of the greatest year I’ve had on this blog, I’m featuring the Top Ten Most Popular Blog Posts from the last year of blogging. I hope you enjoy: An Interview with Carol Kivler,…
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Author Sasha Kildare “My Relationship With Lithium” Guest Post
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I’m happy to have my fellow mental health advocate and friend Sasha Kildare posting today. Before reading her post I didn’t know too much about Lithium as I have never taken it. Her piece is both insightful and informative. My relationship with lithium I call lithium my insurance. I used…
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Where Online To Share Your Mental Health Story
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I’m collecting resources and sharing them here to encourage the conversation of mental illness and recovery. After attending Sunovion’s Mental Health Influencer’s Summit and meeting a variety of other bloggers and storytellers, I am encouraged to see that I’m not in competition with anyone, but rather I’m in a collective…
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Advocacy in Action: An Interview with Hannah Blum
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BipolarBrave: Hannah, tell me a little about your work in the mental health arena. Hannah: I started volunteering for NAMI North Carolina in 2014. Funny story is, I did not share my diagnosis of bipolar 2 disorder with any of the staff. Finally, someone asked, “Wait a minute, what are…
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A Review of “Touched With Fire”
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The movie was intriguing and the characters pulled me in. I enjoyed watching the crazy banter and it reminded me of a time in my mania that my sanity was drowned out by the fury and flourish of the illness. I can identify with a few things: The creativity: rap, poetry, art…