Bipolar Hope?

I was reading the blog I wrote chronicling the raising of my late son, who suffered from Bipolar Disorder. I started the blog in 2003 when my son was 19, and just graduated from high school. I maintained the blog until he died in 2008. But I read the early entries, and was reminded of [...]

There Is A Season, Turn, Turn, Turn…

There seem to be a lot of people whose moods are impacted by seasonal changes. Most are impacted by the shorter days of winter, and of those impacted, most get depressed. I’m different, I’m impacted in the late summer into fall, and mine isn’t only depression. For several years I would go to our family [...]

A Ryan Dream

Ryan is a son we lost a year ago, he was 24. He died of a freak accident in our home. Without a long explanation (yet), his bipolar disorder killed him, as it does so many of the people who have it. I’ll write about that regularly going forward. I had a dream about Ryan [...]