psychosis – Page 2 – NUTS ABOUT MELONS

Will 50mg of Quetiapine a day keep the bipolar psychosis away?

Published on February 4, 2018 under bipolar

The count down is on. My calendar is marked for June 15th, 2018. Sounds exciting right? Like maybe I’m going to visit Mickey or fulfill my dream of seeing Celine Dion? Wrong. This is the…

Reflecting on My Bipolar Biorhythm and Preparing for the Personal Apocolypse

Published on January 21, 2018 under bipolar

You’ve heard the saying “what you resist persists” (and so have I). In the last few years I’ve been resisting bipolar disorder. I’ve been trying to permanently fix it in a handful of ways. …

Living Bipolar – November 1st, 2017

Published on November 1, 2017 under bipolar disorder

I've been at this for 6.5 years. Sometimes there is no time and everything seems to flow. Other times, time crushes me as the gravity of pain flowing from my bones and inundating my aura,…

Bipolar Mania and Psychosis Inside Out 5 – Thinking Differently

Published on September 23, 2016 under bipolar disorder

On and on it goes weaving webs of words spun from the fabric of that other dimension we rarely mention as its inner unseenness means gleaning the meaning of the invisible and that which is…

Bipolar Mania and Psychosis Inside Out 4 – Revisioning Mental Health

Published on September 21, 2016 under bipolar

Lots to say about revisioning mental health. There is inspiration and impulse to create a collective context through sharing and dialogue. Perhaps this may change things from us residing in our monologues in isolation. I…

My experience of Amy Cuddys Body Language Shapes Who You Are

Published on August 25, 2016 under bipolar disorder

I recently watched Amy Cuddys TED talk "Body Language Shapes Who You Are" and it resonates with an experience I had in the psych ward in April. I was experiencing a mean wave of psychosis…

Celebrating Psychosis – Thoughts on Mania, Wonder and Magic

Published on August 18, 2016 under Beauty

This is an experiment and I'm curious about something. I'm curious about how much I can shape my future. If I were to vision cast on here, how close might I be to predicting what might…

To focus, or not to focus, on Psychosis

Published on August 12, 2016 under bipolar disorder

To focus, or not to focus, on psychosis? That is the question. I've been reading about and researching psychosis for the last 1.5 years, and I've been in psychosis 3 times! The previous 3.5 years…

Surrendering to Psychosis with an Advance Directive

Published on August 10, 2016 under bipolar

In my last post, I wrote about my first episode of psychosis. It wasn't what I was intending to write about. I started with post with the following: Bipolar psychosis. It could be the scariest…

An episode of psychosis. Number one of four.

Published on August 8, 2016 under bipolar

Bipolar psychosis. It could be the scariest sh*t out there. Or I should say, in here. Psychosis is nowhere and everywhere. When it's there, it's here, it's everything. It's scarier than being faced with a…