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This page contains a running feed of posts about mental illness.

  • My Story Isn’t Over Yet - Those who have been paying attention to my social media may have by now noticed the proliferation of semicolons everywhere, including my current profile picture. I’ve not been shy about telling people that I have bipolar disorder; the stigma associated with mental illness kills people. As part of my own therapy, I have decided to […]
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  • The Mentally Ill are People Too - The response to mass shootings where the mental health of the perpetrator is in question or where there are known mental health issues often includes exhortations to prevent the mentally ill owning guns.  There are significant, to put it lightly, legal, moral, and ethical problems with this. The mentally ill are people too.
  • This is me - I saw this on Facebook.  This is an extremely good description of how my bipolar disorder affects me.
  • Good Morning. If It Is a Good Morning, Which I Doubt - Dealing with mental illness means being in a daily battle with your own brain.  Up until a few months ago when I found out I have a mood disorder I chalked my normally down moods up to personality.  I considered myself to me melancholy in the tradition of artists and poets of centuries gone by.  Indeed, for […]
  • The Roller Coaster Continues, Just Not As Bumpy - I haven’t written in awhile, and, truth be told, there’s not been a whole lot to say.  I am, thankfully, adjusting well to my meds.  I am no longer spending weeks at a time in the grips of depression; when it happens, it resolves quickly.  It is also not usually that severe.  Though some instances, […]
  • Hello, I’m Jonathan, And I’m Bipolar – Part II - When last I wrote, I was just coming out of a period of very severe depression, followed by a hypomanic episode.  My medication really seems to be working now, as I have been free of depression for about two and a half weeks, and free of hypomania for two weeks.  I know this journey is far […]
  • Hello, I’m Jonathan, and I’m Bipolar - I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder in late July of this year after battling a severe and at times crippling depression for the prior 16 or more months.