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Getting Some Zzzzz’s: Sleeping with Bipolar Disorder

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
As many people have discovered, regulating sleep is often one of the best ways to regulate mood. Unfortunately, maintaining a regular sleep schedule is not always as easy as it sounds, especially if your neighbors, your family or roommates, your schedule, your lifestyle, or your sleeping arrangements do not cooperate.

Losing Sleep Trying to Get Sleep Medication

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Over the past couple weeks, my wife, who happens to have bipolar, has not been sleeping well, which is always a bad sign. For two weeks, she's been trying to get something to help her sleep - to get her through the often manic days that seem to reach full bloom about the time school lets out. You can read the whole account, "Tragedy of Errors" on our Bipolar Blog.

Do You Miss Mania?

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Mania isn't usually a pleasant feeling, but hypomania can be. It can make you feel like you're on top of the world - highly creative, energetic, effervescent... all that good stuff. Unfortunately, mania tends to follow with all its bad stuff - irritability, anger, conflicts, maybe even paranoia and hallucinations, and then sometimes the big crash into depression. Treatment can level out the highs and lows, when it works, but people who've experienced those highs often miss them.

Teaming Up to Maintain Mood Stability

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
In Bipolar Disorder For Dummies, we devote an entire chapter to the topic of building a winning mood-management team. For many with bipolar disorder, the team consists of a doctor (who manages the medications), one ...

Candida Fink, M.D. and Joe Kraynak are authors of Bipolar Disorder for Dummies. Pick up the book today!
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