Everyone experiences emotional pain, and sometimes that pain can be very difficult to bear. However, I posit that people with depression experience exaggerated emotional pain. Depression causes emotional pain in and of itself, of course, but what I’m talking about is regular, everyday emotional pain being exaggerated because of depression. This is similar to how depression worsens physical pain, which I have written about before.
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Sex is a taboo subject for some people. Bipolar disorder is even a taboo topic for some people. So, you put the two together and it’s no wonder that few people actually discuss sex and bipolar disorder. But this is a shame because bipolar disorder can drastically affect a person’s sex life. This online masterclass goes over the impacts of bipolar disorder on sex and how to handle them.
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Did you know there are tags banned on Instagram? More to the point, did you know that hashtags for bipolar disorder, depression, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders and other mental health tags are banned on Instagram? Up until recently, I didn’t know this. Upon finding it out, however, I think it’s incredibly important to speak out against it. While I realize that Instagram may have the best of intentions with these bans, banning mental health/mental illness tags on Instagram is not the way to help people.
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So-called “happy” experiences trigger my depression more than sad ones do. This includes everything from witnessing happy people to taking part in a happy event to watching something happy in a movie. All of these things can make me more immediately sad than seeing something depressing. This seems counterintuitive — even to me — but it is what happens in my daily life. It’s one of the ways that I know I experience major depressive episodes — episodes of an illness.
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I’m having a happy holiday with bipolar — at least, so far. There was a time when I didn’t think that was possible, but I’ve learned differently since then. This post isn’t about how great my life is or how you should feel bad about not having a happy bipolar holiday, this is about discussing how to have a happy bipolar holiday and how, if you can’t, that’s okay too.
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There is a weight to a chronic illness diagnosis. The name of the illness being written down on your medical file forms a lead blanket that lies atop you for the rest of your life. Because that’s what chronic illness is: it’s a burden you carry until you die. I know that sounds a little on the depressing side, but it’s also on the realistic side and it’s important to stay realistic when talking about a chronic illness diagnosis – it’s an awfully weighty thing.
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It’s important that people recognize that a person is never too young to be suicidal. Children can be suicidal at four years old. Really. I know how scary that is to me and I assume it’s even scarier to the parents out there, but it’s still true: you’re never too young to be suicidal and attempt or even die by suicide. Let’s take a look at what that means for parents, families and the rest of us.
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Many people with bipolar disorder continue to suffer from debilitating depression symptoms in spite of the fact that medications are available to treat depression in bipolar disorder. Understandably, people are frustrated with this reality. It’s helpful to know all the options available to treat depression, and particularly treatment-resistant depression in bipolar disorder and that’s what this masterclass focuses on.
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Difficult mental health conversations include conversations when you have a mental illness, when you think someone else has a mental illness, when suicide is involved, when a person is acutely ill, and other times too. None of these topics are easy to handle; they are incredibly important, however. This online masterclass is about how to successfully talk about these tough, mental health-related topics.
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