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14 Feb 2012
As I ponder my diagnosis and the time that I have spent getting to where I am today, I am realizing how important acceptance is. It is not only personal, but it is a beautiful thing to have people in your life who are accepting of the fact that you have bipolar disorder.
I recall a time when I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror without feeling a sense of overwhelming shame. Shame that I was marked by such a stigmatized illness, that I was different, that I had...
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01 Feb 2012
What to share today? Someone once asked me what was it like living on a day-to-day basis with bipolar disorder? The first thing that came to my mind was ‘side effects’. I am specifically referring to the side effects of my medication. I have been struggling so hard lately with my diagnosis and the prescribed medication regime. I am so sick of acne, weight gain, feelings of paranoia, visual disturbances, depth perception issues, and the loathing every...
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