From barbershop silence to a bipolar disorder diagnosis, one man’s story shows why vulnerability is not weakness. In the ...

Charlie Sheen, who at one time was definitely a terrible person who also happens to struggle with mental illness and addiction, once said (and I paraphrase) that most people wouldn’t last very long in ...

On the phone, Sawyer, 23, is open, outgoing and funny. He was also diagnosed seven months ago with bipolar disorder, a diagnosis that can cover a lot of territory. Like diabetes, there are different ...

Mental illness is incredibly common: Nearly one in five adults in the United States lives with a mental illness, according to the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH). But in spite of its ...

Moving forward with bipolar disorder isn’t a quick process. The time from my diagnosis until I reached recovery was more than 4 years. Four years is a long time to wait to “be well,” but there are ...

Everyone has ups and downs, but I know a girl whose ups and downs are not so “normal.” Being bipolar means that for stretches of time, she is so depressed she sometimes can’t get out of bed and ...

Anxiety is the most prevalent coexisting condition with bipolar — and understanding how the two intersect is essential for symptom management. Studies have found that anxiety disorders are the most ...

Schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder are two conditions that have many differences between them. A class of medicines called antipsychotics can be used to treat both conditions but may cause unwanted ...

Bipolar disorders present a high rate of misdiagnosis issues (e.g., Rakofsky et al., 2015; Shen et al., 2018; McIntyre et al., 2022). This has a lot to do with poor differential diagnosis practice and ...