Magic Cure
Posted on June 23, 2009
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“It wasn’t until I realized that it was up to me to get my moods under control, that there was no magic cure, that I began to turn the corner on the road to wellness.” Mary Ellen Copeland
Where to look
Posted on June 22, 2009
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A family member wrote me a couple of days ago saying that she was interested in our blog because she had a family member that was bipolar. She is looking for support and information so she can better understand what it means to be bipolar and what she needs to do as a bipolar supporter. She does not have to interact with this person on a regular basis but the person with bipolar still has a major impact on her familial structure.
I asked her if she would be willing to write something about her quest for understanding and the impact that bipolar has had on her family. I am not sure if she will, but her story is universal.
Bipolar disorder is all encompassing. One cannot compartmentalize it into one corner of one’s life without it popping up into another. It can make a person incredibly solitary and lonely, or the life of the party, all at once.
I know that many people come to our site looking for information about bipolar disorder and we are working on getting that out. The links we are building up will be helpful. Jeff, one of our key volunteers, has written up a list of books to reference; we will get that up soon.
Thanks for coming by.
be well
erin longaker
In the works
Posted on June 11, 2009
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It has been months since my last posting but I am back in the saddle again. We have a new specialist who will get our blog into shape. Our latest several volunteers are eager to get going, and I have a strong feeling that past volunteers will want to become active again and that others are waiting in the wings.
Bipolar can be such a devastating illness in over a long length of time, but when it breaks, boy, watch out, here we come!
- Erin
BipolarNOW Mission and View
Posted on August 20, 2008
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The mission of BipolarNOW is to provide a forum to serve those of the bipolar (manic depression) community. To provide a creative platform for expression, mentoring, and an education network for peers, family, friends and their supporters. We are an idea who’s idea has time has come.
We are unique in our proposed field of service. Our infrastructure is growing at such a rate that we foresee our website operational within just a few months, with funding through the private sector and our online constituency, hopefully grants will follow. Our education program will commence within three months as our website grows, with the mentoring and networking system components growing as funding and professional support grows.
Our Value Statement: BipolarNOW will utilize the current virtual tools available to reach out to a diverse bipolar population that seeks for inclusiveness, empowerment, creativity, understanding, and to be humanized. We will draw the best from people while offering succor in real time. We feel that everyone in our community is responsible for his or her own behavior to the best of his or her understanding and ability, and we seek to be a source for recourse, support, and education about this florid disorder and its effects.
The vision: BipolarNOW incorporates the strengths of each person and uses it to help each other in their moments of need. We believe we are an idea whose time has come.
Education is our most intensive, diverse, real-time priority. We want to be there for the consumer that arrives at our website with the question, “Now What?” We want to be able to be a first responder that can educate a new member of the community fresh from the doctor’s office with little information, and her friend who needs to know if she can still be trusted to baby-sit her children. We will be there with multiple levels of sophistication that will meet the needs of the life and mood cycles experienced by those with bipolar, their children, family, friends, and other supporters. Eventually, members will support other members.