"During my first year after diagnosis my medications were changed at least once a month," writes Marcia Purse. "I don't think that's unusual - they were all meds I'd never been on before. Side effects surfaced again and again."
"Part of the bipolar package is that we think and feel and perceive far deeper and higher and wider than most people," says John McManamy. "I would submit this isn’t exclusive to our illness, but obviously a certain manic-depressive engine is clearly at work." Read More »
"When we talk about mental health and wellness we generally think of adults," writes Merely Me. "We tend to romanticize childhood as this carefree happy time when you have no troubles. But for many of us who suffer from a mood disorder or mental illness we know that this rosy scenario did not often match up with real life." Read More »
