Mood symptoms such as overspending, hypersexuality, anger attacks, and self-isolation hurt those around us. A simple apology is just the starting point of making things right.
By Robin L. Flanigan
Bipolar illness starts in the gene pool, but factors such as early trauma, limited social support, and how you cope with stress count, too.
By Jennifer Nelson
Psychiatric disorders have high “heritability.” Can you trace bipolar or other mental health conditions in your family tree?
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Why shorter autumn days, the end of Daylight Saving Time, and interrupted sleep can trigger mood symptoms, and how to fight back with a solid daily routine.
By Christine Yu
It’s no secret that sleep and bipolar mood stability go hand-in-hand. Here’s what the experts recommend for balancing your body clock—especially in preparation for Daylight Saving Time.
By Christine Yu
Country musician Jason DeShaw combines his songs and his personal story to bring awareness of mental health challenges to audiences across Big Sky country.
By Stephanie Stephens
Former international fashion model, makeup artist to celebs, author, and advocate—Jacqueline Cioffa has done it all. She reflects on her unconventional journey.
Managing bipolar is much more than doctor and therapy appointments and medications. A comprehensive approach—sleeping soundly, eating nutritiously, and exercising regularly—is critical.
By Stephen Propst
Depression can draw you away from the people and places you love most, sapping your will to do much of anything. Engage! (Even in quarantine.)
By Melody Moezzi
I learned long ago, when you have bipolar, you cannot tell everyone—and, much of the time, you cannot tell anyone. To keep the day going, I mask my struggles with a smile.
By Carin Meyer
Antianxiety medications. Antipsychotics. Antidepressants. Mood stabilizers. Why so many meds? The advantages (and risks) of combining medications in managing a complex mood disorder.
By Melvin G. McInnis, MD, FRCPsych
An insider’s guide to how bipolar spikes and swings differ from everyday, garden-variety moods. Hint: Our episodic turbulence arises from misfires in the brain.
By Brooke Baron
Why shorter autumn days, the end of Daylight Saving Time, and interrupted sleep can trigger mood symptoms, and how to fight back with a solid daily routine. Joan has always considered herself a night owl. As a night editor for her local newspaper, she would happily plug away until the early morning hours. She would...
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When intense irritability and “anger attacks” disrupt your life and damage your relationships it’s time to look at your mood swings, triggers and stress levels. If Terry had to give herself a diagnosis, it would be “what I call POPD—pissed-off personality disorder,” she says. Even though the she has learned numerous coping skills to help...
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Psychiatric disorders have high “heritability.” Can you trace bipolar or other mental health conditions in your family tree? MY HUSBAND WAS diagnosed with bipolar II disorder about four years ago. After dealing with his illness at its worst, I can see the connection to almost half his family members across three generations. Behaviors include compulsive...
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Learning to manage this symptom of mania can save relationships, safeguard your health, and avoid regret—plus increase your odds of averting a mood episode. What constitutes too much sex? Sheer frequency, it turns out, has nothing to do with it. There is no standard measurement for a healthy libido, which makes it difficult to formally...
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Nice, this issue is great.
This issue looks great! I can’t wait until it gets here — I’ll be waiting by the mailbox!