Tag Archives: Mental Hygiene

Another day, another decade

Throughout the year I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about some of the personal stuff that has been going on lately. There’s been a lot of it. Every time I wrote a post however I decided it was too revelatory, too emo, too whiny or too something else. This is a personal post, [...]

Medication

Copyright be damned1! As a bipolar on lithium I’ve experienced having my creativity, eagerness and mind numbed and agonized over it in no small measure. Accordingly this strip really struck a chord with me: Footnotes: At least until I get a C&D. ↩

Minor update

There’s been radio silence here for a while now, interestingly not because I haven’t had anything to share with you from my regular rambling repertoire of reprehensibly reckless recommendations. In fact I have quite a few posts I’ll be happy to perpetrate quite shortly. No the cause of my negligence is that I’ve acquired a [...]

Money doesn’t talk. It swears.

One of the really shitty sides to bipolarity for me has been the exceptional ease with which I ignored bills and debts during both the up and down periods. Whether I was too depressed to manage or too manic to care doesn’t really make a difference. The result is that I find myself today in [...]

A bit of backstory

So where to begin… Let’s begin like this: Hi. My name is Martin. Late twenties. Live-in girlfriend. Loving family. Good job. Bipolar disorder. Heavily medicated. Why this blog? Well. I am a incredibly resourceful young basket case, or so my various therapists, doctors and psychiatrists would have me believe. So perhaps my writings here might [...]

Survival Guide

The last couple of years I’ve been living with bipolar disorder. I have no problem at all talking about it openly. In fact it’s more or less a necessity for keeping my friends and job. I had a pretty rough variant for a while but I’ve learned a few tricks for keeping it under control, [...]