From morning light cues to bedtime boundaries, learn expert-backed ways to realign your internal clock and protect your sleep. In people with bipolar disorder, the brain and body systems that govern ...

Author Virginia Woolf saw her artistry and her mood extremes as being inextricably linked. In a letter to a friend in 1930, she wrote of her “madness” that “in its lava, I still find most of the ...

It almost never fails to happen. When I talk about my experiences with bipolar disorder at one of my book events, someone, usually the mother of a budding artist, will come up afterward, wait until no ...

Over the years of managing bipolar disorder, I’ve made it my mission to keep developing ways to meet my moods head-on. As time passes, I continue discovering new strategies to soothe my depressive ...

Some years ago, I was discharged from a psychiatric hospital after a stay for mania and psychosis. Of course, it was a relief to go home, but readjusting to everyday life after five weeks in the ...

If you’re dealing with hypersexuality as part of your bipolar disorder, you may be familiar with sexual thoughts and impulses that feel unusually persistent or difficult to ignore. When they become ...

Sleep problems are a core feature of bipolar disorder. Learn how sleep changes during mania and depression, why it predicts ...

When we talk about bipolar disorder, the focus often lands on the highs of mania and hypomania or the lows of depression. But if you — or a loved one — live with bipolar disorder, you may also notice ...

With bipolar, I often felt upset, angry, and defensive. When I discovered how to maintain my internal peace, I learned to control myself and my emotional reactions. Have you heard the saying, “Never ...

Complementary and integrative therapies can be beneficial for those with bipolar disorder — as long as they are an addition to your treatment plan, not a substitution for it. For someone with bipolar ...

If you’re living with bipolar disorder and standard treatments aren’t bringing relief, your provider might use the term “treatment-resistant.” It’s a label that can sound worryingly like “untreatable, ...