Staying Focused

Staying Focused

The importance of staying focused in daily  Bipolar Living cannot be stressed enough. Living Bipolar means watching for stressors, keeping an eye on your mood, diet, and sleep patterns. Having self awareness and honestly assessing your mood even when feeling good leads to healthy living which is the goal for every person with a mental illness.

Self empowerment comes along with a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle consists of diet and weight, emotional health, exercise and fitness, memory, and relationships, healthy eating and sleeping. All of these things helps with managing Bipolar disorder long with coping skills to prevent relapses.

You can bring your life into balance. Your mind is like a fine tuned car, with the proper maintenance you can prevent and ease future moodswings. Medication alone cannot do the entire job of living with Bipolar disorder, in order to be a happier you you must be a healthier you mentally,  emotionally and physically. By being in control of you emotions and behavior you can handle life's daily stressors and challenges and lead a productive, fulfilling life.

Improving emotional fitness as well as physical fitness takes work but the rewards of fewer, less severe moodswings are worth the effort. Committing to building emotional health means fewer hospital stays and a more balanced quality of life.

Healthy choices which strengthen your life while having a mental disorder leads to feeling better about yourself and this will lead to fewer depressions.

Helping your medication work with healthy daily living habits is important when dealing with a mental illness.  Living with a chronic illness is never simple and addressing practical issues by having a plan of action which will go into effect if you are not capable of making decisions should be considered.

Accepting, learning and adapting to your moodswings begins the process of recovery.  Managing your illness as a part of your life and knowing your illness gives you the tools that are needed to make the situation less frightening.  You need to understand and recognize what happens in your body when you experience an episode. There are resources on the web that contains the whats, whys, and hows of mental illnesses


Organizing your daily routine and improving your self awareness will help you and our treatment team to find what works best for you.  Finding a support group online an help immensely.  The ey to treatment is to be realistic and patient, give the medication time to work, you ma have to try different drugs in order to find the right one.  Help your medication do its job by keeping healthy habits in daily life.

Staying Focused

The importance of staying focused in daily  Bipolar Living cannot be stressed enough. Living Bipolar means watching for stressors, keeping an eye on your mood, diet, and sleep patterns. Having self awareness and honestly assessing your mood even when feeling good leads to healthy living which is the goal for every person with a mental illness.

Self empowerment comes along with a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle consists of diet and weight, emotional health, exercise and fitness, memory, and relationships, healthy eating and sleeping. All of these things helps with managing Bipolar disorder long with coping skills to prevent relapses.

You can bring your life into balance. Your mind is like a fine tuned car, with the proper maintenance you can prevent and ease future moodswings. Medication alone cannot do the entire job of living with Bipolar disorder, in order to be a happier you you must be a healthier you mentally,  emotionally and physically. By being in control of you emotions and behavior you can handle life's daily stressors and challenges and lead a productive, fulfilling life.

Improving emotional fitness as well as physical fitness takes work but the rewards of fewer, less severe moodswings are worth the effort. Committing to building emotional health means fewer hospital stays and a more balanced quality of life.

Healthy choices which strengthen your life while having a mental disorder leads to feeling better about yourself and this will lead to fewer depressions. 

Helping your medication work with healthy daily living habits is important when dealing with a mental illness.  Living with a chronic illness is never simple and addressing practical issues by having a plan of action which will go into effect if you are not capable of making decisions should be considered.

Accepting, learning and adapting to your moodswings begins the process of recovery.  Managing your illness as a part of your life and knowing your illness gives you the tools that are needed to make the situation less frightening.  You need to understand and recognize what happens in your body when you experience an episode. There are resources on the web that contains the whats, whys, and hows of mental illnesses

Organizing your daily routine and improving your self awareness will help you and our treatment team to find what works best for you.  Finding a support group online an help immensely.  The ey to treatment is to be realistic and patient, give the medication time to work, you ma have to try different drugs in order to find the right one.  Help your medication do its job by keeping healthy habits in daily life.

Of Genius and Madness

There is a link between genius and madness. but where this gift comes from and why is unknown. People with Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder are more frequently found to be highly gifted people. There have been numerous studies that have proven link.

Studies in Sweden done on 16-year-olds showed that the more intelligent teenagers were more likely to develop these mental disorders.


A study of Swedish men whose intelligence was measured during their military careers has found a significant link between high intelligence and hospitalization for Bipolar disorder .

A study of adults showed that those who scored top  grades at school were four times more likely to develop bipolar disorder than those with average grades.


The link was strongest among those who studied music or literature, the where genius and madness are most often connected in people in historical records.  Mania may improve intellectual and academic performance, people with mild mania are often witty and inventive. They tend to have exaggerated emotional responses which shows as  their talent in art, literature or music. In a manic state individuals have a higher capacity for sustained concentration.

More men than in women are shown to be linked with this gift but the difference was not
significant.


Numerous wellknown people have been linked to Bipolar disorder. There have been
lists compiled to show that mental illness can strike anyone at anytime.

Among the famous who have been associated with Bipolar disorder are Richard Dreyfuss, Patty Duke, Carrie Fisher, Linda Hamilton, Margot Kidder, Vivien Leigh.

Singers Charley Pride, Rosemary Clooney, Connie Francis, and Charley Pride have been linked to this illness as are astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Art Buchwald, television host Dick Cavett, Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.


There are rumors about of many famous people of the past like Vincent Van Gogh, who  throughout his life showed signs of mental instability. Van Gogh has been described as suffering from epilepsy, depression,  psychosis, delusions, and bipolar disorder.



The influential persons whose lives have been studied for extreme, and debilitating, moodswings with Bipolar or Unipolar symptoms are Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.






Many writers have been associated with mental illnesses and others have been the victims of hospitalizations and or suicide some of them were: Hans Christian Andersen, Honore de Balzac, William Faulkner,  F. Scott Fitzgerald ,  Nikolai Gogl,  Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Joseph Conrad , Charles Dickins, Isak Dinesen , Ralph Waldo Emerson,  Herman Melville, Mary Shelley , Robert Louis Stevenson , Leo Tolstoy , Tennessee Williams,  Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf , Emile Zola.