I have written a few books now about my experiences with Bipolar Disorder and how it affects my life. But the latest two are my best in terms of how they relay the message Im trying to convey. They are by no means the definitive explanation but they are the most accurate in my aptitude for the way I can present it.
The first one is a graphic, raw and detailed explanation about Bipolar Disorder from my own perspective. From inside the storm. This immediately shows that the underlying cause of misunderstanding is the fact that Bipolar is looked at in a different way than what is lived. This is a link to the book if you’re interested in reading it
The second book is my attempt to explain the concept of Bipolar experience from the outside. From your perspective. This is based on my own presumption though as to how you are seeing the storm unfold, as it is a position that I have not been in. I also heavily used metaphor to describe the experiences and this is primarily because the description of experience is very different to what we are able to describe via language. Language is linear and static whereas Bipolar is constantly moving and evolving in its presence. Once again, there is a link below to the book if you so wish to read more of the attempt at explaining how the illness impacts your life.
The following blogs are written in different phases of my Bipolar. I have resisted the temptation to edit them and correct the grammatical errors. I believe it gives you a clearer understanding about the situation I was in at the time of writing them. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. 👍
Nobody has the ability to truly understand what you are going through or experiencing. There’s simply not enough words in the English language to describe what you are going through accurately enough.
I’m not claiming that I have the answers or I know more than you or the next person, because I don’t. I’m just lucky enough that I have been afforded the opportunity to write my experiences with Bipolar down. I simply started writing words down whilst the negative voices were chattering away in my head. I was able to write a solitary word down and I thought of the different ways it could be used. Then I was able to write two words down and I threw them together and I progressively got more and more words down on the paper and I was focusing on these that much, I wasn’t hearing the voices anymore. I wrote a few song lyrics, poems and bits for the books I have written. It’s nothing exceptional or groundbreaking but it’s just an example for a positive coming out of a negative.
If I can do it, so can you 🙌
My Bipolar Perspectives of a Unipolar World 