At times, I become resentful that bipolar disorder occupies any part of my life, but because it does and because writing about is one of the things I do, I sort of accept that it’s going to occupy a corner in my mind.

Some time ago, when Candida and I were having trouble cooking up ideas for blog posts, I asked my wife Cecie to help us drum up some topic ideas. Soon, we were talking about bipolar disorder every day. We read books, articles, and research studies about bipolar. We even watched a couple movies and videos. I began to notice that when friends or family members asked what we had been up to lately, the topic turned to bipolar disorder.

That’s when it struck me that bipolar was no longer relegated to a small corner of my mind. It was taking over and pulling Cecie into the vortex with it. And the really sick thing about it is that we encouraged it to do so, or at least I did, and it wasn’t fair to Cecie. She already has to deal with all that stuff too much.

We’re well aware that during severe mood episodes bipolar will nearly consume our lives, but fortunately those episodes are few and far between, so we really don’t need to think about it, read about it, talk about it, and watch videos about it every waking moment. Life has better things to offer and more enjoyable movies to watch.

So this post is a reminder to myself to make bipolar disorder a smaller part of my life – not a “Just Say No to Bipolar,” but more of a “Just Say Yes” to all the wonderful things in our lives.

If you’ve let bipolar become too much a part of your life, we’d like to hear about it and, more importantly, what you plan to do about it.

Photo by Francisco Daum, available under a Creative Commons attribution license.

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    Last reviewed: 16 Feb 2011