New bipolar disorder research highlights a wearable lithium sensor, how mood stabilizers affect thinking, and fathers’ ...

Learn how to treat bipolar mixed states, where overlapping symptoms, risk factors, and side effects require a careful, ...

We hear it from our therapists like a broken record: For successful mood management with bipolar disorder, consistent and adequate sleep is of utmost importance. The usual tips are to maintain a ...

When it comes to managing bipolar disorder, sleep plays a prominent role. Yet many people think, “Well, what does sleep have to do with bipolar disorder?” Sleep is vitally important. And people — not ...

I have to laugh at the dramatic title that came to my mind as I contemplated what to write about for this post. As someone with bipolar disorder, it’s something my depressed mind would insist upon, ...

Grant “Skip” T. remembers his hand trembling the day he sat down to write a long-overdue letter to his son. It was his son’s 39th birthday. And Skip, diagnosed with bipolar disorder more than a decade ...

As someone with bipolar disorder, I want to give you an example of the types of conversations I have with myself — conversations that are constantly going on in my mind. One night, my wife looked over ...

Those six projects you’ve been meaning to get to for months? You’re on top of them all — and you have plans for six more. You are cheerful and creative, gregarious and engaging, and a multitasking ...

An incessant stream of repetitive thoughts typically badgers Christine E. when she’s alone, or at night — when she doesn’t have someone or something to distract her. The rumination happens most when ...

Many of us with bipolar disorder make terrible decisions when we’re ill, and rebuilding our lives afterward is naturally overwhelming — especially after a massive episode, when extreme mania and ...

My brain has an extra groove when I’m depressed. This mood swing opens a channel where music and conversations are recorded and played back — over and over and over again. I then fly back to my past ...