Becoming Strong Again

So you've had a psychotic break. You don't know how to live your life again. You've been told that you will be stuck on medicine for the rest of your life. Your perception of the world has intensified and changed. What do you do?  Instead of putting all of your hope in the medicine that your doctor prescribes its time to get deep and analytical with yourself.

Ask yourself these questions not necessarily in this order:

1. Is there anyone that I need to forgive?
2. How can I commit to one act of self love every day?
3. How can I understand the events in my life that have caused the upset that I dealing with?
4. What alternative treatments are there out there for me?

More and more research is coming out that psychotropic drugs do more harm than good, so it is wise to do
your research. If you have questions or want to be pointed in to the right direction please email us
at destroyingthestigma@gmail.com or follow us on twitter @destroyingdastigma.


Suggested Reading for inspiration: Making Peace from broken pieces by Ilya Vanzant

Success & Satisfaction: Strategies of Fighting the Stigma of Bipolar

As Oprah ends her daytime television show and puts her energy into her O.W.N. network it is appropriate to explore the stigma that people who are diagnosed with bipolar experience in the media. Oprah is an example of a journalist that has done numerous shows on Bipolar disorder. From Sinead O'connor to Michael Douglas' admission on her show that Catherine Zeta-Jones was "outed" about her bipolar condition it is time that we discuss strategies for Bipolar people to people FIGHT THE STIGMA!

First we know that the media is always the first ones to jump to conclusions about the mental health of anyone that does anything rash or violent to others or breaks the law. The media always wants to put people into boxes. This is the way the media can explain things easier to the public in sound bites.  The media is built by and around sound bites.  As a person diagnosed bipolar you can definitely speak intelligently to the media about the ways in which all bipolar are different. Stereotyping is something that the media does with glee, and letters to the editor, blogs, and twitter are all ways for us as bipolar people to fight the stigma by getting the message out.

Fighting the stigma of bipolar is done one person at a time. You can blog about your life victories. Shout it out and trumpet the adversities that you have overcome as a bipolar person. If you love someone who is bipolar let them know how proud you are of them for being triumphant in their life over the obstacles that inevitably manifest themselves in their life. A sense of belonging will continue to mature and develop once the bipolar person knows that they are truly an overcomer and will gain wisdom and strength because of that.

From a collective of Bipolar people to you we say: love yourself, forgive yourself, and treasure yourself. You are truly a gift.

Continue to boldly fight the stigma!