Sinead’s experience of bipolar disorder
I’m turning 36 this year, which means I’ve now lived with bipolar for 25 years.
I’m turning 36 this year, which means I’ve now lived with bipolar for 25 years.
World Bipolar Day is celebrated each year on March 30th. Affecting up to 40 million people worldwide (WHO, 2022), it is estimated that 1-2% of people in Ireland experience a lifetime prevalence of bipolar disorder. It is a complex and
You’ve just been told your diagnosis – bipolar. For some it’s a great relief knowing there is an explanation, a name, for this thing that has you in turmoil for months or possibly years.
People who live with bipolar disorder are a core constituency of the Aware organisation. Developing and delivering a programme which would support, educate, and inform people to live well with bipolar disorder was a service in need of, and well worth providing.
The first time I experienced depression I was 13 or 14. I began to refuse to go to school. I’d wake terrified of the day, not that I had slept much at night, but I felt like I couldn’t leave
Bipolar disorder is a complex yet manageable condition. It’s a condition that effects moods, emotion and energies and can be challenging in many ways.
I was twenty years old when diagnosed with Bipolar Type 2. For years I was treated for depression until I was reassessed and bipolar disorder was suggested. On first hearing this I was in denial until I was told what
I first became ill just after finishing my final exams in Trinity College. It was the year 2000 – a milestone year for the world.
My diagnosis of bipolar disorder type one was received relatively late in my life. I had just turned 42. I knew little about the illness and was more familiar with the term ‘manic depression.’ I was hostile, to put it
Media portrayal of bipolar disorder Recently in mass media we’ve witnessed great leaps of awareness about relatively common mental-health issues such as depression and anxiety. With that awareness there has been a decline in the negative attitudes that used to
This month’s webinar features a panel of lived experience experts sharing their perspectives of living with bipolar disorder.
This webinar Bipolar disorder & depression: Managing as best we can looks at how we can best look after ourselves if we experience depression or bipolar disorder. Where we can start, some of the barriers to care and how we can