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Meet the Seat

10/02/2016by blahpolar 32 Comments

Well hello there, say hi to my low chair. It’s where I park my arse for therapy weekly and weakly at ward 13. It sits on the subordinate side of […]

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Waiting Rooms

03/02/2016by blahpolar 33 Comments

It’s the same everywhere, isn’t it? Government facilities offer unparallelled opportunities to “hurry up and wait”. And we wait. And wait. For hours – placid as cattle. There’s just no […]

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linkdump

12/01/2016by blahpolar 1 Comment

Greetings and salutations, o best beloved and beleaguered bipolar tribe; now stand still while I dump some links all over you. Parental advisory for foul language later in the post. […]

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Submission: Alex_elu

10/12/2015by Yvette Hess Leave a comment

-“My nighttime sedation… my little piece of heaven the hours I’m not conscious of what’s happening in my reality”

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Ward 13 & Clozapine

26/11/2015by blahpolar 26 Comments

It was a ward 13 Wednesday yesterday, for therapy and to get meds. Starting and titrating Clozapine, tapering off lamotrigine and sertraline and chlorpromazine. Weekly white cell counts for a […]

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Broken minds need community care

25/11/2015by Yvette Hess Leave a comment

Source: One in three South Africans will be affected by a mental illness in their lifetime, according to the South African Stress and Health Study published in the South African […]

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Discussion: the curse of self-doubt after an episode (depression)

28/10/2015by Yvette Hess 22 Comments

After an episode I’m usually left totally exhausted, but also overwhelmed. Not necessarily by things I need to do (although that is sometimes the case), but more so because I find […]

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Introducing Mental Floss Mondays

23/10/2015by Pieces of Bipolar 6 Comments

Mondays always seem to come around far too quickly, dragging along their own brand of anxiety tinged with depression, making for an almost insurmountable week. Here at Our Lived Experience […]

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Community with a purpose

16/10/2015by Ilze Gopal 8 Comments

What makes us different? It is not just our diagnosis, it is how we share it with the world and how we relate to each other because of it. It […]

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Coming Back to Life (Part 1)

13/10/2015by ourlivedexperience 27 Comments

Today’s post is a particularly heart-rending one. The subject is absolutely not specific to parenthood where there’s mental illness involved, and it’s very much about motherhood universally. It’s brutally honest […]

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