When bipolar depression takes hold, it can feel like carrying an invisible weight that pins you to your bed. You’re not just tired. You’re relentlessly exhausted. The idea of getting “up and at ‘em” ...

Too often, self-care gets painted as a luxury — bubble baths, scented candles, or meditating in silence. For many men, that image can feel out of reach or even unappealing, as though caring for ...

Allow me to make a mess. Then I’ll try to clean it up. The mess: There are no clear lines between rapid cycling and non-rapid-cycling bipolar. There are no lines between rapid cycling and “ultradian” ...

When someone you care about seems unusually self-focused, grandiose, dismissive, or unable to see how their behavior affects others, it can be painful and confusing — especially when bipolar disorder ...

When bipolar disorder enters your life, you become part of a community bound by shared understanding. But spend any time in that community, and you’ll notice that bipolar disorder isn’t just one thing ...

Not everything important about bipolar disorder shows up during a mood episode. Some of it lives in the symptoms that still make your day harder even when an episode has passed, in childhood adversity ...

When bipolar disorder includes psychosis, your thoughts and perceptions may not match reality. You might hear voices, see things that aren’t there, or believe something untrue with conviction. These ...

How 3 new studies use modern science to explore age-old questions and support people living with bipolar disorder today. Each month, the science of bipolar disorder races forward. But it often draws ...

In her memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum, Sara Schley wrote publicly for the first time about living with bipolar 2 after decades of silence. What began as a personal ...

What is “bipolar”? It’s encouraging that attempts to answer that question have made more progress in just the last five years than in the previous 25. I’ll present some of that progress in coming ...

Every month brings small developments that hint at big shifts in how bipolar disorder is understood and treated. In this roundup, the leading psychiatric association’s plans for a new edition of its ...

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