Bipolar Disorder

  • Bipolar Disorder,  Mental Health

    One Year of Bipolar Disorder

    7th of May. It is exactly one year since I had an emotional breakdown at work and was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. This day is also Maternal Mental Health Day. These two things are not a coincidence. They share the same story. My Bipolar Disorder symptoms started after the birth of my first son, Silver, in the middle of Covid pandemic back in 2020. I experienced Mania, Psychosis, Anxiety, and Depression. I did not know that then. I did not have the language for what was happening to me. I just knew that something is happening… something deep and complicated. That person I had been before Silver’s birth was not…