Bipolarized ii: an inside guide to the other bipolar disorder - k. simpson

Pop quiz : Is Bugs Bunny bipolar? Was Winston Churchill? How about Margot Kidder, Henry VIII, and Frank Sinatra?* What about you? If youre one of the roughly 4 percent of the population with diagnosed bipolar disorder-or the even smaller percentage with bipolar II-join the club.

Bipolar disorder is mental illness.

Its manic depression.

Its serious.

If youve just been diagnosed, however, take heart: You havent joined a secret society.

We manic-depressives are everywhere, and you already know some of us.

Youre not alone.

Bipolarized II (written by a practicing BP II) can help you make sense of a serious but misunderstood mental illness-the only one with an up side.

With luck, it may make you laugh, too.

If youre looking for gloom and doom, dont look here.

But if youre up for an irreverent guide to a quirky condition, this is the place.

Take heart: Youre not crazy.

Youre only bipolar.

* Why not, no, yes, probably not, and yes.