Family and Friends

If your child, spouse, sibling, boyfriend, girlfriend, partner, parent, or friend is bipolar, you suffer almost as much as they do. Here are some things to help you understand.

Provide this kind of Support

• Depressed ISN’T Sad

• Stop Assuming the Drugs will Immediately make life Better

• Just Try It and See What Happens... Hah!

• A Good Depression Primer

• We Need a Safe Space

• Relationship Falling Apart? Do NOT Give Your Partner Space

• Your Friend had a Depression Episode. What do you say the next time you meet them?

• Your Friend is Depressed / Out of Contact. What to do?

• Failure. I'm okay with it. But Telling Others is Hard

• Things that might Cause or Trigger Manic Episodes

• You Can't Go It Alone

• With a Little Help from My Friends

• About Suicide

• Get this made as a pin :)

• What to Do to Help (incomplete)

• Handler (very incomplete)

What We Experience

• 18 Symptoms of Depression

• Cause and Effect, Depression and Stress

• Staying Home When I'm Depressed

• How We Feel when We Are Depressed

• Inability to Focus and Self

• Coming out of a Depression Episode

• The Daily Energy It Takes to be Normal

• Wrong Movie

• Moodswings Change in your Forties, just like your Vision

Holidays and Family Gatherings

• Holidays / Mania / Depresssion / Long Weekends ...Arrgh!!

• Thanksgiving Stuff(ing)

Our Diagnosis and Drugs

• Children and Bipolar Disorder

• Am I Manic Depressive?

• Is My Diagnosis Correct?

• Monitoring Yourself for Manic Depressive Signs

• In case you are wondering, it's real, and we aren't crazy

• Do the Drugs Work?

• Do Antidepressant Medications Work?

• Don't take Magazine articles on Antidepressant Drugs Too Seriously

• Becoming Resistant to Drugs

• Setting up a Mood Chart

• Official Signs for Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and Mania

What Should We Tell Other People

• When to Tell Your New Partner You're Bipolar

• I've just been diagnosed with Depresssion / Bipolar Disorder. What's Next?

• Language We don't Telephone Calls, Texts, etc. (incomplete)

• What to do to Help (incomplete)

• If Everything has gone Critical, it doesn’t matter what you do First

Other Stuff

• Depression as Pain

• Using Mania to Do Things

• Bipolar Disorder and Sports

• Schedule Triage (needs updating to more practical info)

• Controlled High Flying - Day to Day dealing with Mania