Mental Health

Stop Forcing Delusions for Mental Illness – Bipolar Burble Blog

I hate empty words in general, but I especially hate empty words when they are applied to mental illness. It's so condescending when people offer some simple advice and say it will fix everything. It's obnoxiously religious when people tell you that you're looking at things or doing things the wrong way, because they know…

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My Life Was Lost to Bipolar Disorder – Bipolar Burble Blog

I lost many years of my life due to bipolar disorder. No, I don't mean I have reduced lifespan due to bipolar disorder (though this is probably true too). I mean, there are years living those missing due to bipolar disorder. At 46, I can look back over the decades and see those years of…

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Psychotherapy for depression with noncommunicable disease

People with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have a two- to threefold increased risk of depression (Lloyd et al., 2018; Mendenhall et al., 2014). There is a bidirectional relationship between depression and AIDS (Singer et al., 2017), with one condition negatively influencing the outcome of the other. Adverse effects go beyond adverse health outcomes and include financial…

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Do magic mushrooms work to treat bipolar disorder? – Bipolar Burble Blog

Magic mushrooms (psilocybin) are being looked at as a treatment for bipolar disorder. There was good news this week about the use of psilocybin in the treatment of bipolar disorder Type II depression. In particular, the results in a very small clinical sample were extremely promising. That said, there are things you should know before…

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Holiday Tips When Living With Bipolar Disorder – Bipolar Burble Blog

Living with bipolar disorder can be difficult, and living with bipolar disorder around the holidays can be even more difficult. While there are many wonderful things about the holidays, bipolar stability is often not one of them. I believe that even after the holiday, we should take care of our mental health and accept the…

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to analyze chronic pain in US veterans using electronic health records

The United States has a complicated relationship with cannabis and its legal status, particularly with high levels of tension between the state and federal levels (Young-Wolff et al., 2022). At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act (1906). This means that it is officially considered to have…

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Can you blame everything on bipolar disorder? – Bipolar Burble Blog

In my life as a mental health advocate, I've seen people blame anything and everything on bipolar disorder. It includes everything from thoughts like this obsession and anger to actions such as infidelity and shouting. And in my hundreds of posts here Bipolar Burble, you will find that many things are associated with bipolar disorder….

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When Bipolar Makes You Unfit – Forgive Yourself – Bipolar Burble Blog

I've recently had days where I'm redundant due to bipolar disorder. My mind turned to stone. I couldn't think if I was tired. And thanks to the weakness of my brain to think, I couldn't work either. Trying to do anything – and I mean anything – resulted in nothing but crushing crush. And all…

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How to Get the Bipolar Support You Need – Bipolar Burble Blog

Support for bipolar is important, but the bipolar support you really need is even more. We are all different and so is the support we need. The problem is that it can be difficult to get the support we need when we need it. I would say that getting that support is actually a skill….

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