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Living with bipolar disorder means making complex treatment decisions, managing distressing symptoms, and wondering why certain challenges keep showing up. Your journey is yours to navigate, but you ...

We recently asked the bpHope community to fill out a short questionnaire about their experiences with antidepressants. The results offer a revealing glimpse into the challenges many of you face. In ...

Akathisia and tardive dyskinesia are neurological movement disorders that can develop as side effects of certain dopamine-blocking medications, particularly antipsychotics. Because both can involve ...

Bipolar disorder has taught me that waiting until I’m in a crisis is never the best time to make a plan. For me, mania doesn’t build slowly — sometimes it escalates within hours. That’s why I’ve ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly become part of our daily lives. Whether it’s a chatbot answering questions online, an app offering mental health “coaching,” or a website summarizing medical ...

When you live with bipolar disorder, you’re like anyone else in many ways. You care deeply about certain things. Others frustrate you. But bipolar disorder also leads to some experiences that people ...

Tardive dyskinesia affects hundreds of thousands of people, yet it often goes unrecognized. The symptoms can be easy to overlook at first — a subtle lip twitch, a slight hand movement, or a bit of ...

For many adults living with bipolar disorder, the answer is to enter a residential treatment center for continued, whole-person care. Residential treatment is a type of mental health care that ...

That quick jolt from an energy drink might feel like the perfect pick-me-up when you’re running low on energy. But if you have bipolar disorder, the high levels of caffeine and stimulants in these ...

For anyone managing bipolar 1 disorder, staying consistent with daily medication can be a challenge. Busy schedules, shifting moods, and side effects can make it easy to miss doses — and even brief ...

If you’re living with bipolar disorder and standard treatments aren’t bringing relief, your provider might use the term “treatment-resistant.” It’s a label that can sound worryingly like “untreatable, ...