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Bipolar Journals is a series of journal entries from a girl with Bipolar Disorder II. The entries explain what it is like to face stigmas of mental illness and derogatory images that the media paint in the minds of her peers. It describes how Bipolar Disorder disrupts her emotions and her functionality.
Bipolar Journals is published anonymously by a girl who might just be in your community.
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Bipolar Journals - An Anonymous Sufferer
Bipolar Journals
By Bipolar Girl
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2012
This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.
Cover Art images a compilation by Tabitha Holmes-Short, provided by Foter and Mayang
Table of Contents
Entries:
January 11, 2012 Why Doesn’t The World Stop With Me?
January 11, 2012 I Don’t Hold Onto Emotions, They Stick to Me
January 25, 2012 Scars
February 2, 2012 Capturing the Journey
February 6, 2012 Bipolar Monster
February 6, 2012 Bipolar Vs. Freddie Krueger
February 8, 2012 Homesick
February 9, 2012 The Mind is a Wonderful Thing…Most of the Time
February 15, 2012 Bipolar Sick
February 16, 2012 Safe & Sound by Taylor Swift
February 21, 2012 Faking It
February 21, 2012 Stop
February 23, 2012 Out Sick This Week
March 12, 2012 A Good Day
March 14, 2012 Bipolar Day
March 14, 2012 What is Bipolar For Me?
March 14, 2012 And This is How Quick it Turns Around
March 18, 2012 A Good Day for Bipolar
March 22, 2012 A Good Day
March 26, 2012 A Good Day for Bipolar II
END
My name is a mystery to you and it will remain so. This book has not been edited and it will remain so. The purpose is to thrust into your life an unedited snapshot of what Bipolar is really like. I am diagnosed as having Bipolar Disorder Type II (Depressive). If you take nothing else from this literary work, I really want you to understand this: I am an individual suffering Bipolar Disorder, I am not Bipolar. It does not define me, but it is an affliction.
I could give you the clinical definition of Bipolar Disorder and other
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