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Anxiety, Addictions and Depression Treatments
Not limited to bipolar disorders, and not written by a bipolar writer (not overtly, at least). It is, though, a good source of research news digested for consumers.
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Banjk's Bipolar Blog - Welcome to Rainland ^{Top Rated}
I became (for now) a functioning bipolar. Well medicated, happy, insane with an anything but normal life and an anything but normal partner. Here's what happened since I put this blog away...
Preview Website - 6-May-2008 - Hits: 28 - Rate This | Details

Been Broken ^{Top Rated}
Very poetic and thoughtful. It feels delicate but has an undercurrent of strength, which describes many people who have a bipolar disorder but few write this eloquently in a blog.
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Beyond Meds ^{Top Rated}
Journey of drug withdrawal after 20 years of meds that made the author sicker and sicker. Alternatives, spirituality, socio-political commentary and personal journey.
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Bipolarjourney.com ^{Top Rated}
Lizzie's life with bipolar disorder. Includes blogs dealing with the substantial cost of bipolar medications, how others feel about those who have bipolar, and many more.
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Caught in my Burble ^{Top Rated}
"Your neighborhood misanthropic, buxom, bondage-positive, bipolar, bisexual, flying, loquacious hedonist." She is trying to get a VNS implant, which is unusual since so far they've only been used experimentally for treatment-resistant depression (they are FDA-approved for epilepsy) and not bipolar since it theoretically could trigger mania. She writes descriptively about horrific depression, so it's easy to see why she's considering a VNS implant as an option. The outcome should be interesting.
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David Camps Bipolar Life
My site is about my personal fight with bipolar disorder. I have a user based website with chat rooms, forums, places for people who have a mental illness to place stories and articles. My goal is to create a community online for people with mental illnesses.
Preview Website - 4-Apr-2008 - Hits: 90 - Rate This | Details

DBSA President Sue Bergeson's Mental Health Blog
Exactly what it describes. The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance's elected leader keeps a seldom-updated but informative blog with topics ranging from bipolar irritability to spirituality to research and community news. It's not an especially personal blog, but she does infuse it with anecdotes that make her posts vivid and accessible.
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Furious Seasons ^{Top Rated}
Depending on your perspective, Philip Dawdy is either a whistleblowing hero or provocative conspiracy theorist. Whether inspiring or annoying, he's unquestionably a talented writer. (He's done some terrific investigative blogging about Zyprexa, for example.) With thinking and rethinking, it's likely you'll agree with some views and reject others, just as he does. He discusses his own experience with bipolar disorder as well. If you like to be challenged and are keen on good rants, this blog is tops.
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John McManamy's Share Posts ^{Top Rated}
John is not only known for his writing on bipolar spectrum disorders research, he's received high honours for it. This year he was awarded a Mogens Schou Award for Public Service, joining an exclusive and prestigious list of honourees that include professor of psychiatry/author/bipolar overachiever Kay Redfield Jamison, family psychotherapy researcher David J. Miklowitz, and the Stanleys of the Stanley Foundation (a major research funding source). John does things a bit differently online. Although he keeps a blog it's mostly relegated to personal stories and recipes while his most astute, well-researched writing is delivered in McManamy's Depression and Bipolar Weekly, a subscription-based email newsletter. Eventually its articles become publicly archived at his static web site McMan's Depression and Bipolar Web. He also wrote a great book that distilled a lot of that knowledge, Living Well With Depression and Bipolar Disorder. The blog keeps everyone current what he's working on.
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Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
GrrlScientist is a molecular evolutionary biologist in New York City, a person with bipolar and a Ph.D. looking for work in zoology. She chronicles her progress and struggles with hospitalization, career, survival and academia. This is an acclaimed blog written with personality and doused with plenty of science (and beautiful related photos).
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Milligram
This is a sharp and witty blog that at times has been challenging to continue to follow because it keeps moving! (Brad, its author, has assured us this URL will redirect to wherever he decides to move to next, though.) Brad's posts are an absolute treat, brilliant and hilarious. Brad's machine-gun sarcasm sprays widely and may offend just about anyone in any stance eventually, and since he's Canadian it's hard for non-Canadians to tell when he's being serious. Take your dose of Milligram with a grain of lithium salt and try not to choke on it as you laugh.
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The Bipolar CEO
He's been a CEO of 2 successful companies, and a senior executive of 5 other companies, and also has been diagnosed with bipolar II. He has suffered through many ups and downs with bipolar, even almost losing his family--in this very interesting blog, learn how he makes it through his daily struggles.
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The Trouble with Spikol ^{Top Rated}
A fantastic blog by the personable and candid Liz Spikol. She posts frequently on bipolar news items culled from the mainstream media (and reader contributions) with a special interest in prison reform and related mental health legal issues. A career journalist, she's got an instinctive affinity for the blog medium. Maybe most importantly, her personal experience with bipolar provides a perspective some blogs lack. The Trouble with Spikol takes a pragmatic view of mental health issues, looking at consumer activism as well as medical advances and humanizing it all. Although the news items are sometimes grim, Liz infuses her blog with lightness, warmth and humour.
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Time for Your Meds
A lesbian psychiatric nurse who has bipolar, "Crazy Tracy" depicts life from both sides of the gurney. Her blog is personal, emotional and powerfully written. With severe bipolar I, Tracy is often hospitalized or recovering from an episode. Her descriptions of manic perceptions and depressive despair are harrowing and real. Unusually (at least in the blogosphere), she's a proponent of ECT, having undergone many courses of it.
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Trick Cycling for Beginners
A bipolar junior psychiatrist in the UK. Life seems pretty hectic.
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