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Upcoming Webinars & Events
Understanding Bipolar Disorder and Co-Occurring Borderline Personality Disorder: Identifying Symptoms and Potential Treatment Approaches
October 10, 2024 at 10:00 AM PT Register for the free webinar with Dr. Christina M. Temes here. The focus of this webinar is the co-occurrence of bipolar disorder (BD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD). Although these conditions represent distinct diagnostic...
The Association Between Bipolar Disorder and Perimenopause: Implications for Women with Bipolar Disorder
October 23, 2024 at 8:00 AM PT (United States) & 4:00 PM (United Kingdom) Register for the free webinar with Professor Arianna Di Florio here. In this webinar, Professor Arianna Di Florio will present the research evidence currently available on the link between...
How I Overcame Hospitalization to Help Myself, and Others
November 12, 2024 at 10:00 AM PT Register for the free webinar with Paris Scobie here. In this webinar, Paris Scobie shares her story of how she went from being a patient struggling from inside the walls of a psychiatric hospital newly diagnosed with bipolar to...
From Our Blog
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Maternal Mental Health Month is celebrated each May to raise awareness about parents’ mental well-being before, during, and after pregnancy. Celebrating this month can mean acknowledging…
Raising a Family While Living With Bipolar Disorder
Raising children is accompanied by an abundance of emotions. Anywhere from excitement, love and joy, to the less talked about, sadness, exhaustion and loneliness. Parenting does not come without its challenges. From conception or adoption…
5 tips Toward Healing From a Bipolar Depressive Episode From the Perspective of a Psychiatrist
You play sports, running in the morning, and in the late afternoon you alternate weight training with tennis. In fact, there is no storm outside. But inside your head, lightning, thunder and a whirlwind of symptoms…
Falling – And Getting Back Up
Depending on my mood state, my sense of self worth can change drastically.While manic, I feel a larger than life sense of purpose. It often feels justified after extended depressive episodes because it feels like my brain needs to…
Self-Esteem & Bipolar
Depending on my mood state, my sense of self worth can change drastically.While manic, I feel a larger than life sense of purpose. It often feels justified after extended depressive episodes because it feels like my brain needs to…