
Why, hello, there! The Bipolar Parent just celebrated an anniversary of sorts: two years of weekly posts! The blog has technically been running for about six years, but back when it started, posts were infrequent due to my not having my bipolar disorder under control. I was either riding the highs of mania and unable to focus, or suffering from the lows of depression and unable to muster up the energy to do much of anything, much less blog.
Now that I’ve managed my bipolar disorder better with the help of Wellbutrin and Risperidone, I’ve hit two years with posts every Friday. That’s worth celebrating.
So, here is the master link post for The Bipolar Parent. It will be updated periodically to include the newest posts. I will also be including related links on all future posts. Enjoy!
- The Bipolar Parent’s Saturday Morning Mental Health Check In: Sleep Edition
- Have Bipolar? You Can Still Thrive This Holiday Season
- The Bipolar Parent’s Saturday Morning Mental Health Check In: Mother-In-Law Edition
- How to Manage the Winter Blues/Seasonal Affective Disorder
- The Bipolar Parent’s Saturday Morning Mental Health Check In: How Are You?
- 11 Lessons I Learned From 11 Years of Managing Bipolar Disorder
- How to Support a Friend or Loved One Staying in a Psychiatric Hospital
- Dear Younger Me: You’re Bipolar, and That’s Okay
- Crisis Hotline Numbers and Resources Master Post
- What is a Warmline, and How Do You Use Them?
- Tips and Resources for Online Support Groups
- Getting Support During a Bipolar Depression Episode
- How to Communicate with Family During the Holidays When You Have a Mental Illness
- 10 Signs That You Are a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
- Book Review: Balancing Act: Writing Through a Bipolar Life, by Kitt O’Malley
- Can a Whole-Foods, Plant-Based Diet Improve Depression?
- How to Start Seeing a Therapist
- Easing Anxiety About the End of the World: 4 Steps to Combat Climate Change
- How to Shield Your Children From the Effects of Your Bipolar Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder and Insomnia–And What to do About Sleep Disturbances
- Common Pitfalls When Communicating With Your Kids About Your Bipolar Disorder, part II
- Common Pitfalls When Communicating With Your Kids About Your Bipolar Disorder, part I
- Probiotics May Help Treat Bipolar Disorder
- Does Inflammation Cause Bipolar Disorder?
- National Depression Awareness Month: My Experience and How to Get Support
- National Prevention Week: How I Prevent Oncoming Bipolar Mood Episodes
- Book Review: Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry
- How Specific Gene Variants May Raise Bipolar Disorder Risk
- Shot Through the Heart, and Bipolar Disorder’s to Blame: You Have a Higher Risk of Cardiovascular Disease if You’re Bipolar
- How Does Spoon Theory Relate to Mental Illness?
- Are You White? You Have a Better Chance of Being Properly Treated for Bipolar Disorder
- KonMari Revisited: A Review of the KonMari Method in Tackling the Clutter Demon With Bipolar Disorder
- Maternal Bipolar Disorder Significantly Increases Risk for Premature Births
- How to Manage Common Bipolar Triggers
- How to Survive a Stint in the Mental Hospital
- How to Talk to Someone Experiencing a Bipolar Mood Episode
- How to Spot Bipolar Disorder in Teens and What to do About it
- What Are the Differences Between Bipolar in Children and Bipolar in Adults?
- Preemies Have Higher Risk to Develop Bipolar Disorder
- How to Spot Depression in Children, Even Preschoolers
- How Sugar May Harm Your Mental Health
- America has Highest Rate of Bipolar Disorder Diagnoses in 11-Nation Study
- Can Early Symptoms Predict Bipolar Disorder? Evidence Shows Differing Patterns of Risk Factors
- The Links Between Fibromyalgia and Bipolar Disorder
- Brain Training Shows Promise for Patients with Bipolar Disorder
- The Bipolar Parent Master Link List
- Scientists Link Bipolar Disorder to Unexpected Brain Region
- A Quarter of People with Fibromyalgia Show Bipolar Symptoms
- Bipolar Disorder Medication and Weight Gain
- How to Treat Common Side Effects of Bipolar Medication
- How to Clean Your House with Bipolar Disorder and a Toddler, part II
- How to Clean Your House with Bipolar Disorder and a Toddler, part I
- How to Follow a Mediterranean Diet to Help Manage Bipolar Depression
- What is Hypergraphia, and How Does It Relate to Bipolar Disorder?
- My Manifestations of Bipolar Mania: Crafting and Frugality
- Tackling the Clutter Demon with Bipolar Disorder
- Book Review: Dyane Harwood’s Birth of a New Brain
- Good, Good, Good Nutrition, Part II: Foods to Avoid When Managing Bipolar Disorder
- Good, Good, Good Nutrition, part I: Foods to Eat to Help Manage Bipolar Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder Manifests Differently in People Who Binge Eat
- Family Study Emphasizes Distinct Origins for Bipolar Disorder Subtypes
- Interview With My Parents: On Raising a Bipolar Child
- People With Bipolar Disorder More Likely to Die From Age-Related Diseases
- Bipolar Disorder Diagnosable By a 15-minute Electrocardiogram, Study Finds
- Book Review: Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life
- 22 Easy Meals to Make While Depressed
- Dealing With Mental Illness Privilege Guilt
- Left-handed People Require Different Mental Health Treatments, Study Finds
- Gene Breakthrough on Lithium Treatment for Bipolar Disorder
- Light Therapy Helps Bipolar Disorder Patients Function
- Brain Protein Targeted to Develop New Bipolar Disorder Therapies
- Pot Smoking in Teens Linked to Bipolar Symptoms
- Children with Bipolar Disorder May Be Diagnosed with Vitamin D Blood Test In the Future
- Bipolar Patients Treated with Lithium Rehospitalized Less
- Scientists Conclude After 12-year Study That Bipolar Disorder Has Seven Causes
- Treatable Condition Could be Mistaken for Bipolar Disorder
- People with a Family History of Bipolar Disorder Have Reduced Planning Ability
- People At-Risk for Bipolar Disorder May Age Faster
- Men and Women Differ When it Comes to Bipolar Biomarkers
- Researchers Create Global Map of How Bipolar Disorder Affects the Brain
- AI Used for Blowing Pilots Out of the Sky Helps Bipolar Patients
- Bipolar? Your Brain is Wired to Make Poor Decisions
- Six-Year Delay Between Onset of Bipolar Disorder and Diagnosis, Study Finds
- Molecular Mechanism Behind Lithium’s Effectiveness Identified
- Children at High Risk for Bipolar Disorder Genetically Vulnerable to Stress
- Hippocampus Volume Decreases Linked to Bipolar Disorder
- Depression Changes Our Language
- Bipolar Genes Linked to Autism
- Genes Linked to Creativity Could Increase Risk of Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia
- Bipolar Disorder Increases Risk of Early Death From Natural Causes
- How to Handle Intrusive Thoughts
- What Does High Functioning Depression Look Like?
- Which Mental Health Professional Should You Use?
- The History of the Treatment of Mental Illness
- Can Bipolar Disorder Symptoms Contribute to Hoarding?
- Bipolar? You Can Survive This Holiday Season, part II
- Bipolar? You Can Survive This Holiday Season, part I
- New Research Pinpoints Bipolar Disorder Gene
- What Types of Therapies Are Right For You?
- How to Get a Psychiatric Evaluation
- Disclosing That You Have a Mental Illness, part IV: Your Employer
- Disclosing That You Have a Mental Illness, part III: Friends and Family
- Disclosing That You Have a Mental Illness, part II: How
- Disclosing That You Have a Mental Illness, part I: When
- Bipolar Patients More Than Twice As Likely to Have Suffered Childhood Adversity
- Scientists Predict Who Will Respond to Lithium
- What to do if Your Child has Bipolar Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder in Children
- How to Apply for Disability Benefits for Mental Disorders
- Antibiotics Linked to Manic Episodes
- Why Should You Chart Your Moods if You Have Bipolar Disorder?
- Bipolar Disorder is Toxic–Literally
- Antibodies That Cause Encephalitis Linked to Psychosis
- Can Blueberry Extract Help Prevent Postpartum Blues?
- Substance Abuse and Bipolar Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder in Women
- App to Detect Onset of Mania In Development by Sane Australia
- What to do if You Run Out of Medication
- 4 Ways to Educate Someone About Mental Illness
- The History of Bipolar Disorder
- Mental Illness in the Media–An Incomplete Picture
- 5 Ways to Cope with a Diagnosis of Mental Illness
- 8 Myths About Mental Illness
- Learned Behaviors: Passing on Coping Mechanisms
- Nature vs. Nurture: The Causes of Bipolar Disorder
- What is Bipolar Disorder?
- 6 Strategies for Parenting with a Mental Illness
- How to Talk To Your Kids About Mental Illness
- The Price of Mental Health
- What is Postpartum Psychosis?
- How Mental Health Affects Personal Hygiene
- The Prevalence of “Nuts”
- “How Do You Define Mentally Ill?”
- Pregnant While Bipolar
- Executive Function and Bipolar Disorder
- Safe Medications to Take While Breastfeeding
- Stabilizing Medications: Risperidone and Wellbutrin
- What is Bipolar Depression?
- Bipolar and Suicidal? You’re Not Alone
- The Gold Standards of Bipolar Medication, part II
- The Gold Standards of Bipolar Medication, part I
- Are You “Covering” For Your Illnesses?
- How to Clean When Your Brain is a Mess, part III
- How to Clean When Your Brain is a Mess, part II
- How to Clean Your House When Your Brain is a Mess, part I
- How Privilege Affects Mental Healthcare
- How to Get Your Much-Needed Forty Winks
- How to Work Out with a 40-pound Parasite Clinging to Your Leg
- Bipolar? Exercise Will Change Your Life
- Good, Good, Good, Good Nutrition!
- Why Medicinal Weight Gain is Devastating to the Mentally Ill
- What is Cyclothymia?
- The Importance of Team You, Part V
- The Importance of Team You, Part IV
- The Importance of Team You, Part III
- The Importance of Team You, Part II
- The Importance of Team You, part I
- A Breath of Fresh Air: Deep Breathing Techniques
- A Beautiful Mind
- Hypomania: A Closer Look
- What is Hypomania?
- What is Mania?