My Bipolar Diary
This is the Real Stuff !!
It's a journey of hope, despair, longing, annoyance, fear, winning, and sometimes just sheer tiredness. Read this if you think you are bipolar. Or if you have just been diagnosed and want to know what to expect. Or if you just want to see what someone else has gone through.
After I was diagnosed, I wrote down all my daily thoughts and feelings for six years, from 1997-2003, while I struggled to cope with being bipolar. It's goes from diagnosis to relative stability, and was a blog before blogs even existed.
The Diary is the soul of this website, and I've been told many times that there is nothing else like it on the web. You'll be surprised how similar the Diary is to your experience. The dates are old, but the problems of being bipolar don't change.
This is the end of the first phase of the diary.
The 2019 and forward stuff
It Got Worse in my Forties, Fifties (new : 2 Sep 19)
Since the Diary was written, I've become more knowledgeable about being bipolar, and about drugs, and mania, and depression episodes, and dealing with doctors. Check out the other sections of the website for more specific information.