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Bipolar disorder

March 2024

  • Lydia West and Nicola Coughlan in Big Mood.

    TV review
    Big Mood review – Nicola Coughlan is a force of nature

    The Derry Girls actor is funny to her bones in this sitcom about mental health and long-term friendship. It’s full of lovely touches, if not enough nuance

August 2023

  • Eleanor de Jong

    Having bipolar made my pregnancy ‘high risk’. But all mothers deserve an elevated level of care

    Eleanor de Jong
    Pregnancy comes with mental health risk for all women. And so many of us downplay our own needs and wants once a baby is on the scene
  • Eleanor de Jong

    I’ve always had a support network to help me manage manic depression. Most aren’t so lucky

    Eleanor de Jong
    The majority of people on psych wards are heartbreakingly isolated and lonely. How are they supposed to get better?
  • Hannah Jane Parkinson

    Forget Instagram influencers, Sinéad O’Connor showed mental illness as it truly is

    Hannah Jane Parkinson
    Everything the mainstream debate shrinks from, O’Connor put front and centre, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson

July 2023

  • Eleanor de Jong

    Is sleep the canary in the coalmine – a clue to the health of our minds?

    Eleanor de Jong
  • Eleanor de Jong

    When the ants start crawling, yes, I take my antipsychotics – but human touch is also a powerful balm

    Eleanor de Jong

June 2023

  • Eleanor de Jong

    Nobody I’ve been locked up with in a psychiatric hospital felt ‘proud’ of their illness

    Eleanor de Jong
    It’s great mental health is now openly discussed but the sickest people I’ve known – myself included – have had almost no part in it

November 2022

  • Jannik Sinner plays a forehand against Novak Djokovic during the men’s Wimbledon 2022 quarter-final.

    Game, set, bankrupt: how an addiction to gambling on tennis lost me £40,000

    The UK gambling industry is worth billions, with 5% of customers responsible for 70% of that revenue. That includes me – after my addiction spiralled in the pandemic
  • File with a list of psychiatric disorders

    Routine bipolar screening should be ingrained in NHS, say experts

    Bipolar Commission says more specialist training needed to reduce average nine-and-a-half-year wait to get diagnosis
  • Selena Gomez in My Mind & Me.

    ‘She’s like Princess Di’ – Selena Gomez and the extraordinary film about her mental health

    Using six years’ worth of footage, In Bed With Madonna director Alek Keshishian has charted the former Disney child star’s troubled but successful pop reinvention, her remarkable empathy and love-hate relationship with fame

October 2022

  • Jonno Seidler, author of the memoir It's a Shame About Ray, about his father Dr Ray Seidler and the history of depression among males in the Seidler family

    Australian arts in focus
    ‘We were so good at hiding it’: how mental illness tore through firstborn men in the Seidler family

    In his new memoir, Jonathan Seidler confronts his family’s long history of mental illness, and how it finally made its way to him

August 2022

  • Michel and Suzy.

    How we met
    How we met: ‘I thought people with bipolar couldn’t live together. But I could see myself being with Suzy’

    Michel, 65, and Suzy, 49, both have bipolar disorder. They met at a conference on the subject in 2005; a year later, on their first date, they got engaged

July 2022

  • Emmanuel Carrere, Author, writer, Photographed in Paris (Photo by Stephane GRANGIER/Corbis via Getty Images)

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘There are no words for the horror’: the story of my madness – podcast

    Emmanuel Carrère was no stranger to depression, but it was late in life that a major episode got him hospitalised and diagnosed as bipolar. In some ways it made sense of his problems, but in the midst of it, everything was broken

June 2022

  • An illustration from The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness by Matt Ottley depicting a blue and white bird with a tree growing out of its head and a boy walking along the tree

    ‘A visceral experience of psychosis’: why one artist spent three years painting bipolar disorder

    Creativity has been Matt Ottley’s salvation – but for the artist, composer and children’s book author, it has come at a terrible price

May 2022

  • Emmanuel Carrère.

    The long read
    ‘There are no words for the horror’: the story of my madness

    The long read: Emmanuel Carrère was no stranger to depression, but it was late in life that a major episode got him hospitalised and diagnosed as bipolar. In some ways it made sense of his problems, but in the midst of it, everything was broken

March 2022

  • A police officer blocked the entrance to the Museum of Modern Art after the stabbing incident.

    MoMA stabbing: police search for suspect as he complains on Facebook

    The alleged perpetrator also wrote on the New York Post’s site that his victims were ‘in on the backstabbing’

January 2022

  • Keith Earls

    Keith Earls: ‘Hank started to take over. I got to a stage where I hated rugby’

    The Ireland and Munster wing has opened up about his bipolar disorder in a book almost as remarkable as the rugby career he has managed to forge while living with it

September 2021

  • a portrait of Robert Schumann by an unknown artist.

    That way madness lies: why the obsession about diagnosing Robert Schumann?

    The Romantic composer died in an asylum in 1856, since when musicians, doctors - and even the Nazis – have sought to name the illness that brought his early death. It tells us as much as about the story of modern psychiatry as it does about the man and his music.

June 2021

  • Sheila Woodland

    Other lives
    Sheila Woodland obituary

    Other lives: Co-founder in 1983 of the group that grew into BipolarUK

May 2021

  • Logan Thomas’s 2011 film of The Yellow Wallpaper.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about depression

    From Robert Burton’s 17th-century Anatomy of Melancholy to new insights from Ed Bullmore, these are welcome guides to one of the loneliest experiences
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