We hear it from our therapists like a broken record: For successful mood management with bipolar disorder, consistent and adequate sleep is essential. The usual tips are to maintain a consistent sleep ...

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 ...

Self-care supports stability best when it also respects other people’s needs, boundaries, and feelings. With bipolar disorder, it can be difficult to distinguish between “self-care” and “selfishness.” ...

Our award-winning bpHope Blog is a collection of posts written with heartfelt honesty by a group of bloggers from around the world, with each providing their own unique perspectives on living with ...

When you’re stressed, anxiety can increase, and if you also have bipolar symptoms, everything can feel even more intense. Your mood might change, your appetite could shift, and it may be tough to ...

I’ve faced the more familiar facets of bipolar — unpredictable mood swings, medication side effects, irregular sleep patterns — for decades. However, I’ve discovered some difficult dilemmas that often ...

Everyone’s bipolar disorder looks a little different. Imagine a big museum filled with widely varied portraits. The shimmering figure in an ornate gold frame runs up his credit cards, cruises the bars ...

In the United States, depression rates have reached an all-time high, according to a 2023 Gallup poll. Nearly 1 in 3 American adults surveyed said they had been diagnosed with depression at some point ...

Grant “Skip” T. remembers his hand trembling the day he sat down to write a long-overdue letter to his son. It was his son’s 39th birthday. And Skip, diagnosed with bipolar disorder more than a decade ...

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 — ...

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” ...

Living with bipolar disorder can be deeply disruptive and difficult. At the same time, some people say that during stable periods, certain traits linked to the condition — such as creativity, ...