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2017 has been such an interesting year. I think that the best thing I learned in ’17 was that people are very wonderful. I have been so fortunate to spend time with many amazing people this year, and they all have one thing in common: they do not see how brilliant they really are. I think people are far more than their job or their education, or wealth or Continue Reading
This article teaches how-to recognise and get out of depression using a strategy called ramping. Depression is frustrating: it draws my energy away and eats up whatever momentum I had. Depression is a landscape of heavy gravity, inertia, and greyness. Depression in the media is sometimes portrayed as deep sadness but for me it is more of a nihilistic numbness: my world feels small, dark, and utterly inconsequential. Continue Reading
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People can be so courageous. Living with bipolar is hard, whatever the intensity. When you add in careers, relationships, families, goals, dreams to live up to; the illness permeates everything. This means that sometimes everything in life can become a little bit harder, or a lot harder, or maybe it becomes absolutely insurmountable. Nonetheless we try. Continue Reading
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We cannot make progress unless we act on the importance of our well-being to prioritise bipolar health. I was once offered an amazing opportunity to work for a whole year on an isolated tropical island in the pacific ocean, thousands of miles distant from any civilisation. This island is an active volcano, we experienced thousands of earthquakes, and were bruised by intense sub-tropical storms. With a population of only seven, we had to be able to cope independently.
I have read dozens of definitions of bipolar, previously known as manic-depression, over the past decade. I have heard it described as a mood disorder, a brain disease, a mental illness, brain damage, even karma. What I have learned is that bipolar is unique to each individual: everybody has a different experience with it, and at the core bipolar is highly personal. Continue Reading
Hi! I’m Ben and I need your help.
I need your help to cure bipolar disorder.
Not for me, I have that covered, but for others who are struggling.
About Me
I was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder ten years ago. Being diagnosed terrified me not because of the illness itself but because it was known to be lifelong, chronic, and incurable.
It wasn’t until years later that a specialist on bipolar told me something amazing: some people who initially struggle with bipolar disorder learn to manage it so well that it no longer has a negative effect on their lives. He told me this because he thought that I was on my way to becoming one of these people, that I was learning how to cure myself.
This changed my worldview about illness and got me thinking. What was I actually doing to manage my bipolar? Were the skills and techniques I used specific to me, or could anyone use them? Was it possible to teach these skills to help others manage bipolar?
My Goal
I want to help people learn to cure their bipolar quickly. I want to teach people in one year what it took me a decade to learn. This is what I am working towards each day. My strategy for doing this is by developing easy-to-learn practice based cures.
Through KindBipolar I make education on bipolar disorder freely available, focusing on skills and management techniques. My goal is to make KindBipolar the most useful and accessible platform for bipolar in the world. Please consider becoming a supporter of this work.
I remember standing in a park, with the girl I loved, watching her simply being herself. I was completely filled by hurt and rage. She hadn’t done anything, but my body was shaking with anger. My heart was poisoned by resentment and I remember exploding in a wrathful way, a way which was designed to hurt the one I love. Continue Reading