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How to Face Your Everyday Triggers
At any moment, someone’s aggravating behavior or our own bad luck can set us off on an emotional spiral that threatens to derail our entire day. Here’s how we can face our triggers with less reactivity so that we can get on with our lives.
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The Bipolar Lens
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The Impact of Mental Illness on Intimacy
Terri Cheney on May 3, 2024
Personal Perspective: It’s time for people with a mental health diagnosis to stop hiding their true selves. Here why.
Personal Perspective: It’s time for people with a mental health diagnosis to stop hiding their true selves. Here why.
Sleep and Bipolar Disorder: A Rocky Relationship
Terri Cheney on April 2, 2024
Personal Perspective: A healthy sleep cycle eludes many people with bipolar disorder, yet few things are more important for recovery.
Personal Perspective: A healthy sleep cycle eludes many people with bipolar disorder, yet few things are more important for recovery.
Terri Cheney on March 5, 2024
Personal Perspective: It may seem unfair to have a mental illness, but sometimes it brings profound benefits.
Personal Perspective: It may seem unfair to have a mental illness, but sometimes it brings profound benefits.
Are You Putting Off Life Because of Mental Illness?
Terri Cheney on February 5, 2024
A Personal Perspective: Being too cautious about relapse can be just as bad as not taking proper precautions.
A Personal Perspective: Being too cautious about relapse can be just as bad as not taking proper precautions.
The Continuing Miracle of Surviving Suicide
Terri Cheney on January 4, 2024
A Personal Perspective: Hope can still infuse one’s life after a suicide attempt.
A Personal Perspective: Hope can still infuse one’s life after a suicide attempt.
Terri Cheney on December 3, 2023
Are you troubled? Mindfulness meditation is a marvelous way to find peace in the present moment.
Are you troubled? Mindfulness meditation is a marvelous way to find peace in the present moment.
What a Bipolar Mixed State Really Feels Like
Terri Cheney on November 3, 2023
A Personal Perspective: The mixed state?a dangerous combination of mania and depression?is hard to describe but important to understand. Here's an insider's account.
A Personal Perspective: The mixed state?a dangerous combination of mania and depression?is hard to describe but important to understand. Here's an insider's account.