Regrets. My head is full of them. They come up from time to time. Old ones are like old friends — familiar, comfortable, irritating, and sometimes troublesome. These regrets tend to fade quickly.

Elite athletes endure relentless pressure to perform, often facing fierce public scrutiny in a culture that has historically discouraged seeking help. From an early age, these competitors are ...

From lived experience to expert insight, these books open the door to understanding, connection, and new ways of seeing bipolar disorder. Living with bipolar can sometimes feel like you’re trying to ...

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Living with bipolar disorder can mean experiencing everything from intense emotional highs and lows to challenges with energy, focus, and more. Understanding your symptoms is essential to managing ...

Though it’s impossible to trace the first case of bipolar depression or mania, much is known about the evolution of its identification and subsequent classification and naming as manic depression — ...

From Olympic podiums to the Super Bowl, these athletes have used their platforms to show that mental health challenges can affect anyone. Elite athletes endure relentless pressure to perform, often ...

I am very fortunate. After I was initially diagnosed, my first husband decided that he didn’t want to be married to a person with a mental illness. Eight years later, I met a man and right at the ...

Are People With Bipolar Really More Creative? Author Virginia Woolf saw her artistry and her mood extremes as being inextricably linked. In a letter to a friend in 1930, she wrote of her “madness” ...

Daniel, a computer software engineer in Portland, Oregon, was used to solving complicated problems. But when his wife, Julie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, he didn’t know what to do. Her moods ...

Bipolar disorder is unique for everyone, so it makes sense that bipolar disorder treatment plans are, too. Having bipolar disorder usually means managing your symptoms with a combination of medication ...