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Ahead of World Bipolar Day, this blog explores stigma as one of the most common and challenging social issues that affects people living with bipolar disorder.

Bipolar is certainly not a life sentence and with the right support and treatment you can have a wonderful life.

I’m turning 36 this year, which means I’ve now lived with bipolar for 25 years.

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