Bipolards: how people with bipolar disorder live and cope with them

Masha Pushkin is a professional translator and author of articles on bipolar disorder in popular media, in particular, in the magazines "Poster", "Knife" and Psychologies. The founder of the Bipolar Association is a community of people with a bipolar disorder, which is engaged in enlightenment, mutual support of bipolaries and struggle with Stigma.

Today you are super -productive, active and purposeful, and tomorrow all your forces seem to fly into the pipe, And only anxiety and fears remain. It seems that there is no way out of this situation, and it is impossible to control this process...

bipolar disorder appears suddenly and remains for life. At the same time, the most important thing is to learn how to experience mood swings and return to a normal life again.

you want to understand what it is - to be a “bipolar”, to ride on an American slide of your own mood daily, not to know what you will wake up through A week - superhero or unfortunate ruin?

In this book, people with bipolar disorder share their personal survival experience. They frankly talk about how they first realized that they were sick, at what point they decided to seek help and how they learned to live with this disease. It is not enough just to know that you are sick and take medications. It is important to act correctly in difficult situations, and, like the Baron Munchausen, sometimes to pull himself out of the swamp.