Bipolar I Writing a book!
Hi there, first post! Im (F23!) thinking of writing about my journey with my Bipolar Type I diagnosis. I know it needs to be disclosed that Bipolar is vastly different for every individual so I’m a bit worried about negative reviews/and I make sure I use a lot of personal pronouns and I/opinion statements because if I were reading a book about someone’s mental illness I wouldn’t want to be labeled by them in a wrong light.
I’ve written a lot already about my childhood for the first section of my story. As well as planning on going through sections of my life and memory issues I deal with/experiences with therapy and doctors (positive and negative) and exploring my lowest lows and highest highs. I have a journal I keep when I’m manic which is most of my episodes (depression is harder to see in my illness but neither is better for me).
I labeled this as a success story because my Bipolar I diagnosis changed my life and I just graduated college with my bachelors degree in biology. (Even despite mania paranoia kicking my butt and missing several, several classes!)
This inspired me to kind of want to share how I made it in case it could help anyone else in some way even just to see a perspective of what it’s like to fight this. I have a wonderful partner who is so patient and I have a medication regimen that finally works after 10 years of trying.
Just wanted to post about it to see if anyone else thinks it’s even worth pursuing and I’m not sure I’d even be able to publish it. 🤷♀️ I’ve also never really been on Reddit before and don’t have any community or connections to people open about this illness. So I’m looking for a place to start where I can learn and understand how other bipolar people may cope/feel less alone.