Bipolar recovery / recovering from mood disorder

Mood swings?

• Have you ever been depressed (had a low mood for days on end)?

• Had high moods with perhaps so many great ideas that you cannot sleep?

 

Recovery

• Mental health recovery means something different for every person we meet.

• For many the first step is recognising that you have something to recover from.

• For most getting into recovery also means staying 'in recovery'.

• I have found that with bipolar disorder the initial recovery phase - getting back on your feet, is quite different from the later 'in-recovery' time when it is more about building resilience by learning from mentors and peers.

 

How well do people recover from bipolar?

• Years ago people who became very ill with mood disorders were likely to continue to be ill.

• People being diagnosed today can look to many people who have been through the diagnosis process, made lifestyle changes and are thriving in new lives beyond the disorder.

• Some say that they can look back on highs and lows and now are now benefiting from what they had to learn.

• Recovery depends on many things, one of which is education. Each of the courses offered on this site are ideal for people in bipolar recovery, family members, staff who work with bipolar people.

 

News from Stop Paddling

See our sister bipolarrecovery site at www.bipolarrecovery.org

 

An associate kindly set up this Bookstore containing some of the books I mention on courses.

Some notes:

> Stop Paddling works with bipolar people who want to understand and overcome anxiety.

> Bipolar Disorder is also known as Manic Depression.

> Bipolar is sometimes written as bi-polar, Bi-Polar, BP or MD

> The term bipolar spectrum is increasingly being used to describe people experiencing mood swings (up and down) but not having been diagnosed.

> hypomanic = a little below manic
> Stop Paddling may be referred to as the Bipolar Recovery Consultancy or the Bipolar Stress Consultancy.

> All content of the Stop Paddling web sites is provided for your information. It may be used in conjunction with medical advice of your own doctor or other health care professionals. It must not be used instead of medical advice of your own doctor or other health care professionals.

> Always take medication exactly as prescribed.

 

© 2009 Roger Smith Stop Paddling ©

10-Aug-2010 16:15