This Past Week: Dealing With Bipolar Depression
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sun Jun 13, 2010 at 19:30:00 PM EDT
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It's been a rough week for me. As most of y'all know, I have a bipolar condition. Last November I decided to be as open about that condition -- that mental illness -- as I am about being trans. I don't fell like being trans functions for me as a mental illness because being trans doesn't give me distress. However, bipolar mood swings frequently do cause me some distress.
I know others have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Some of these folk include Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, Thomas Eagleton, Buzz Aldrin, Jane Pauley, Dick Cavett, Phil Ochs, Lynne Rivers, Iris Chang, and Bill Lichtenstein.
But of course, Abbie Hoffman, Kurt Cobain, and Christine Daniels were also bipolar. I know that death by suicide is not that an uncommon end for people diagnosed with bipolar disorder.