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Trapped in smiling depression

    I look happy in this picture, right?   This was me in September 2010, the month before I moved from London to Australia.    I was in Ibiza, with my brother, and it was definitely a happier week than I’d had, but I was still a shell of my former self.   I’d had a hell of a year – actually a hell of a few years leading up to that holiday.   I’d lost close friends to…

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What it’s like to be a partner/carer to someone with bipolar disorder

    Recently I was listening to Joel on the Lived Experience Podcast and he was sharing what it was like to grow up with a mum with bipolar disorder. In this interview on the Lived Experience podcast I chat to Joel about my “past life” experience of being a partner/carer of someone with bipolar disorder. It triggered a lot of memories for me of a “past life” relationship in London starting when I was 26 years old, and I…

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