I am missing finding optimism
http://www.findingoptimism.com
Written by someone with boplar disorder and an excellent blog to my opinion, regards,

Dr Shock

Thanks very informative to share other blogs

I am honored, and humbled. Thanks for including me.

I’m the writer of Caught In My Burble. Thanks for including me in the list. It’s always nice to have an admirer. I’m obviously completely biased, but I appreciate anyone shining light on this mostly misunderstood disorder.

Aw. I think http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com should have been nominated. It’s excellent.

One excellent blog that deserves to be on this list is http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/ written by a young Irishwoman living in London.

Thankyou for the award

Hello. Thanks for collecting and sharing these Bipolar blogs. I have started my own blog on being bipolar. I have been the CEO of 2 companies and a senior executive at 5 others. Several of these companies have been successes despite my having bipolar. I was diagnosed 12 years ago, and have been on medication since. I’m in the process of writing a novel - The Bipolar CEO - and my blog includes parts of the book, and deals with issues like jobs, being fired, family, medication, relationships, etc.
– Greg, the Bipolar CEO
http://www.bipolarceo.com

There’s some special secret Sale link on Amazon, EBay, etc. where you can find very good discounts:

http://bargains-hunter.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-find-bargains-at-amazons-secret.html
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I’ve seen discounts there as low as 75% off sticker Price.

Thought you might like to know that my blog was featured on UK national radio yesterday. I read some short extracts and talked about blogging, mental health, and stigma. You can listen to the piece via the BBC website (link below) where there is also a podcast of the whole show. Again, thanks for the award
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2007/11/blog_therapy_1.shtml

I don’t advocate electroshock unless its to truely save ones life rather than simply aggressively treat symptoms. You have to consider the variability of the type selected, the effectiveness and safety record of the treatment team and the underlying health and medications and support network of the individual, and accept probable memory problems following its use. If the original diagnosis isn’t right, then that may be why they aren’t responding to the medication or therapy. Concommitant personality disorders, history of abuse, drug abuse, ptsd, adhd, thyroid illness and diabetes, and simply a lack of good nutrition and exercise or a job or school can really muck up the works. Electroshock won’t treat any of those very well.

I visit this blog on a regularly and think it should be added to the list.

I Am Bipolar - Random Scribbles
http://www.iambipolar.ca/blog

I saw this signing blog by a hearing-impaired counselor about bipolar disorder. I think it should be added to the list, too.
http://www.ascdeaf.com/blog/?p=333

One of the best and the brightest blogs for help in withdrawing from the medications is Bipolar Blast - http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com

I’m glad I found this site as a resourse. Some great blogs in the Top Ten, I’ve been reading and commenting over @ The Trouble With Spikol now for a while.
I have now created my own blog site. I’m probably not even in the top fifty or one hundred for that matter, But it is different and definately Bipolar. You can check out my Bipolar blog anywise if you wish:
http://bipolar-stanscroniclesandnarritive.blogspot.com/

I too have been running a blog where I’ve just “come out” on my Bi-Polar disorder stop by and check out Justakrusen.blogspot.com. Thanks for this top ten list.

I’m going to throw my hat in the ring for people to check out. It’s a relatively new site but I try to give an understanding of what’s it like living with bipolar disorder, but with plenty of humor thrown in.

Check it out at: http://howisbradley.blogspot.com/

I can only hope that I one day am nominated for this list.

Great list! Caught in my burble is a great blog.

I’m the author of Banjk’s Bipolar Blog…which is back…heheh

May I humbly submit Yoga for Bipolar, a scientific and energetic look at the benefits of yoga for bipolar disorder. Please stop in.

I would like to nominate the two best mental health blogs running at this time for the 2008 awards. First of all, Philip over at Furious Seasons maybe be making the most direct and effective change for mental health on the internet. With over 10,000 regular readers his blog is without any doubt the # 1 mental health blog out there today. Second in line in the running in my humble opinion is “soulful sepulcher” or http://bipolarsoupkitchen-stephany.blogspot.com/ which is written with great conviction and courage by Stephany with cutting edge news and reports on Mental Health abuses, news, and with a wonderful sensitive personal touch to add to it’s capitvating appeal.

yours truly
Stan
http://bipolar-stanscroniclesandnarritive.blogspot.com/

I would like to add my blog in the mix too, but I might need a different category… ie. top 10 blogs that only draw mental health humor cartoons http://www.mentalhealthhumor.today.com

Chato

I was just wondering when the awards for 2008 were going to be given out. Or have you decided to cancel those and give what’s behind door #2 instead {laughing}.

Stan

I like my blog. I admit on some days it’s hard to write, so I go with a cute fix, but there is really raw graphic writing on there, that has moved and touched people.

It would mean a lot to me if you looked at it.
Sincerely,

Susan

http://ifyouregoingthoughhellkeepgoing.blogspot.com/

Like Susan, I won’t be humble — I’ll nominate my own blog, “The Doxieman Blog” at http://community.beliefnet.com/doxieman122.

While seconding Susan’s blog, along with Philip Dawdy’s and Liz Spikol’s blogs as perennials, might I add Therese Borchard’s Beyond Blue blog at http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue?

(Stan made an excellent suggestion with Stephany’s “Soulful Sepulcher” blog as well.)

I nominate Susan and her blog

http://ifyouregoingthoughhellkeepgoing.blogspot.com/

She has the best blog I know about this topic!

In no particular order, I nominate:

1) Furious Seasons;
2) Soulful Sepulcher;
3) Is there something not quite right with Stan;
4) If you’re going through hell…; and
5) In pieces

Matt

This blogger is honest, accurate and diligent. She explores her own bipolar disorder and in so doing gives the reader insightful information about her experience.
All of us have unique perspectives on our bipolar disorders.
Susan Schecter is an excellent writer and an extraordinary blogger who gives us a visceral sense of how it feels to deal with at times intractable depression and mania that won’t quit.
She is a must read for me.

Wow, I am really a neophyte.

The above comment describes one of my favourite bloggers.

I’ve never nominated anyone before, so I didn’t fill out the form correctly.

It refers to If you’re going through hell, keep going.

http://ifyouregoingthoughhellkeepgoing.blogspot.com/

This blogger is honest, accurate and diligent. She explores her own bipolar disorder and in so doing gives the reader insightful information about her experience.
All of us have unique perspectives on our bipolar disorders.
Susan Schecter is an excellent writer and an extraordinary blogger who gives us a visceral sense of how it feels to deal with at times intractable depression and mania that won’t quit.
She is a must read for me.

Philip Dawdy’s Furious Seasons http://www.furiousseasons.com/ is required reading for me.

I’m new to blogging and I begin my day reading him. He is my compass. He leads the pack in reporting about how Big Pharma is in bed with the mental health medical profession and the impact this illicit relationship is having on people, young and old, struggling with their mental illnesses.

He is a smart, savvy, sensitive and skilled journalist, deserving of this award for his relentless monitoring of a situation that is so ethically off course. He should be in print.

Now, I’m going to be shamelessly self-promotional and nominate my own blog…”Coming Out Crazy” … not easy for me.

http://thestar.blogs.com/mentalhealth/

“Coming Out Crazy” runs in Canada’s largest newspaper, “The Toronto Star,” and it’s we went live in June. For 48 years, I’ve lived with a serious mental illness (several diagnoses including schizophrenia and manic depression) but now I’m in Recovery.

That’s what I’m trying to shed light on in my blog… that we’re all a little crazy sometimes and that there’s more to mental wellness than what the mainstream biomedical – psychiatry – offers. Drugs.

Lithium destroyed my kidney (I only had one) 14 years ago. I almost died of acute “iatrogenic” endstage kidney failure. There’s something wrong with a system that’s grounded on the theory that chemical imbalances in the brain cause mental illnesses.

This is not true. It’s not right. Especially for children. I have a great deal to learn and I’m learning it from the blogs I’ve nominated above and a great many others.

I nominate these exceptional blogs:

Furious Seasons
The Trouble With Spikol
Charlottesville Prejudice Watch
Going Through Hell
a beautiful revolution
grow-a-brain

I wouldn’t characterize these creations as bipolar or depressed. The blog authors just happen to be moody.

Cheers,
Moira

Just wanted to add this note to those choosing the the top ten this year! “The trouble with Spikol” has gone from a mental health focused site, to more of a political blog! I used to enjoy Her and the blog; now I avoid it at all cost! Just to much bias and poison for me.

Stan

Hi Sandra,

I have a dx of Bipolar II. I currently take Lamictal for it, and have since December 2006. I have been reducing Xanax as a questionable med that has been in place for over 9 years, and it brought my thinking about as to whether or not I was “medicating my emotions and life experience” thus personally questioning my Bipolar II dx.

As with Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons, I have learned (much from him) about managing my stimuli and life style, and one day if all meds are removed will wonder if I was in fact dx Bipolar correctly or not, the same as Philip Dawdy who is off medication for over one year now, (Furious Seasons).

I write extensively about my daughter and her struggles with a schizophrenic dx; and many of my posts are of medication withdrawals I went through the last 2 years.

Thank you to everyone who has been nominating me, I was quite surprised and heart-warmed to see this!

Stephany at soulful sepulcher blog (bipolar soup kitchen)

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Yeah yeah, shamelessly nominating my blog as well. http://lifenotworking.blogspot.com
It’s more of a diary and a way for me to vent about the daily struggles, and it’s a good way to map my moodswings. For some reason people read it. I’ve been diagnosed wit Bipolar disorder type II for six years, and I just started a new medication.

I’m giving myself a pat on the back for the design.

This is a new website that looks at bipolar disorder from two points of view i.e. that of a sufferer, and that of a supporter.

There’s no way Im nominating mine as I’ve only just started it! But please take a look! It’s in its infancy but I’d welcome more followers if you’d please click and join!:-) Even if you just humour me!! LOL!

Thanks, Northern Monkey

http://www.bipolar999.blogspot.com/

i wish i ad a website like this one.very useful info