Mental Health Update

A blog article about the relationships between mental health issues, like bipolar disorder, and HIV.

Recently those more noticeable highs, when taken into consideration with the familiar lows, were diagnosed as bipolar II. I learned that bipolar is actually not as black-and-white as its manic-depressive origins would have us believe. It is a spectrum which, in my case, because I am not showing the extreme behaviours of the highest and lowest points, puts me at a bp II, perhaps III. I am beginning the appropriate medication changes.

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Click through for a useful list for those with eating disorders.

what do people do when they start on their recovery from anorexia? here is a list of ten things that those who deal with this eating disorder mention most frequently. these are activities that they themselves decide on. that’s important to keep in mind. if i were to say to one of my clients, “jo, why don’t you cook a nice meal for anne and bob? you could prepare something you like and then have some yourself!”, it would quite possibly backfire. however, i’m happy when a client comes in and tells the story of doing some of these things.

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