How to manage bipolar

This is an interview with Amy Pollard, the founder and director of the Mental Health Collective. Amy is proud to have a diagnosis of Bipolar
We discuss the strategies Amy has developed to manage periods of bipolarity smoothly.
This video is intended to be helpful to people with a Bipolar diagnosis, and to their loved ones.

Amy starts talking about the strategies she has found helpful 9mins in - including:
1) Finding an outlet for her energy
2) Her 'alternative account' on twitter and her 'madness monitoring committee'
3) Medication - and dialogue with her psychiatrist
4) Her pre-arranged agreement with her partner on steps to be taken when her mood is high or low.
5) Support groups
6) Having a long-term frame of growth.

She emailed to add that, after she has had a 'whizzy' phase where her husband supported her, he gets some time off, as a thank-you.

The podcast she mentions is https://thisjungianlife.com
The bipolar UK support group is
http://www.bipolaruk.org/pages/events/category/online-support-groups-parent-category
And their mood scale is: http:www.bipolaruk.org/faqs/mood-scale

You can find out about the Mental Health Collective here: https://mentalhealthcollective.org.uk/
Amy is one of the contributors to a book I co-edited, called Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency:
https://www.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/breaking-open-finding-a-way-through-spiritual-emergency/94497/

Видео How to manage bipolar канала Jules Evans