We, who suffer from Bipolar Disorder and Adult ADHD, face many difficult issues, both large and small, on a daily basis, from organizing the daily mail to handling complex relationship issues. Bipolar Disorder and Adult ADHD cannot be seen or touched like other disabilities. Many of the characteristic difficulties are hard to spot unless you are really looking. Some of us hide our illnesses so well, we appear substantially normal, which frustrates friends and loved ones. They don't understand why we still haven't cleaned up your house, or organized that room, or finished that manuscript, or why we're always behind with the laundry.
Much of the time, I will be speaking from my own life experiences, sometimes even as they are occurring. This blog is about trying to understand ourselves and each other better by better understanding these invisible illnesses. I would like to think that this blog will also be about hope: hope that we can overcome the stigma associated with mental illness in general (and Bipolar Disorder and ADHD in particular), hope that we can educate even a handful of people about these illnesses and about what we are still capable of and can still accomplish despite our limitations, and hope that we can both realize and overcome the need to convince ourselves that we are still valuable, necessary people.
Much of the time, I will be speaking from my own life experiences, sometimes even as they are occurring. This blog is about trying to understand ourselves and each other better by better understanding these invisible illnesses. I would like to think that this blog will also be about hope: hope that we can overcome the stigma associated with mental illness in general (and Bipolar Disorder and ADHD in particular), hope that we can educate even a handful of people about these illnesses and about what we are still capable of and can still accomplish despite our limitations, and hope that we can both realize and overcome the need to convince ourselves that we are still valuable, necessary people.