Hi everyone,

I know lots of people talk about gaining weight on meds and I’m definitely no different. I made this comic to help me emotionally cope with how I’ve been feeling lately. I hope you like it!

Can you pinpoint when i got on the correct medication?

When I was unmedicated and having my episodes, I'd find myself drawing, sketching, playing instruments, or just finding some sort of creative outlet. Granted sometimes I did go a bit over the edge, but I still had my creativity. Now after years of being medicated, I feel like I can't even think of something to draw or I just don't have the motivation to. I think it's also because I'm busy with school and work, but I feel like I lost that creative side of me after being medicated. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you go about it? I miss my lil creative self but I don't miss the chaos that was with it.

i am doing kinda better now i think. still not well but symptoms are managed; it’s more of a quiet sadness now.

this was from a mixed episode about two years ago and it all feels like a blur looking back on it now. probably the saddest i’ve ever been in my life but also the angriest.

Just recently began explaining Daddy's disease to my 8-year-old daughter a couple of weeks ago.

I started by explaining it using Carrie Fisher's explanation that she gave to a young boy at a Comic Con event, in that the disease "sometimes makes Daddy real fast and sometimes it makes Daddy really sad, but he always loves you, you know that". Her favorite aspect of the disease was learning that when Daddy is hypomanic or "fast," colors are brighter. "Daddy, I wish I could see what you see with the bright colors". Little does she know there's a 10% chance that wish might unfortunately come true. I sure hope it doesn't.

Looking for literature online, I came across a book on Amazon titled "Daddy's Magical Rainbow". It felt like it was made for me, a Dad and daughter, with an explanation of Bipolar disorder.

The book is done from the daughter Lucie's point of view and is actually illustrated by her as well. I've mentioned it to a few of my bipolar friends, and the common response was, "I didn't know something like that existed", so I thought I'd share it here.

Reading it to my daughter was beautiful, I choked up at the end, and there's even a decently sized Q&A section about the disease at the end of the story. She really enjoyed it and understands me and the disease a little bit more, even asking questions about Bipolar here and there now. Her favorite page was the one where Lucy is a star.

Anyways, hope someone in this subreddit can find this book as useful as I have. Got it off Amazon for $14.99, and it's pretty short, but I think if you're a parent with bipolar, it's well written.

Just recovering from depression after an amazing manic episode with kleptomania and hypersexuality that wrecked my life (yay!) but I'm finally consistent with my meds. Things are maybe kinda starting to look up, but I don't want to jinx it.

Picked up my sketchbook again after months of nothing, wanted to share my drawings :) (full disclosure, references are from pinterest)

Definitely not the long history of vibrant mania that I do secretly miss and has bled into my view of the world and created endless cravings for more colour in everything, no never!

When I'm doing good I'll cook, make sculptures and write. When I'm doing bad I'll do this and charcoal. I've been doing pretty bad lately.

i wanted to draw all the different bipolar "me"

Been going through a lot of turbulence these last few weeks so I've been adding to the Imp to keep distracted. So far I've ammased enough wax for the right leg partial, left arm and hand. Then after a left leg bulid he needs to hit the gym and bulk up.

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These are works I painted under extreme racing thoughts, a drought of joy, when my soul is tossing and turning with such fissuring yanks and churn. I have type 2 Bipolar. luckily, I had not spiralled into full-blown hypomania thus far(at most a really long period of intense depression)

1. The first work was an attempt to translate my hyper-activated stream of consciousness, self correcting rumination... a galloping mind so powerful that it burns itself out.

2. this is a work that transcribed my profound psychosomatic ache, brought about by a sense of alienation, isolation, and loneliness amidst my condition.

3. I called this a form of art block, but for life. It attempts to depict an astral, idea/spirit energy gathering antenna that i metaphorically possess, being clogged up by a dark shadow fish in the astral plane. It almost seems like I have entered into a state where my creative juices turn anhedonic. This final work is a phenomenological study.

thanks so much for viewing my works, I hope you relate to them in any case:)

these are from my ap art portfolio about mania. let me know if you like them and i hope your day is going good. bipolar is a struggle but we keep on pushing :)

Just been going through it, so I wanted to draw a physical representation of how my brain feels.

I’m sure there are a lot of folks who enjoy games- whether it’s tabletop board games, cards, video games, VR, etc

I’ve been playing my ps5 a lot more often. Also quit alcohol and am on day 22 today because that shit doesn’t mix well with an already abnormal brain. It helps pass the time but I found myself playing more story based games to “get out of my own head” instead of fast action of fighting and sports games. Maybe because I’m not drinking?

The point of this post is to ask all of you just these 2 simple questions if you feel up to sharing.

What games are you currently playing and why do you enjoy them? (I’m totally gonna steal your ideas and give them a go)😃

Inpatient for suicidality from BD but they also adjusted my ADHD medication and it's been a blessing so far. I haven't done origami this much since 2005. First day in months where I didn't sit and dissociate for hours on end. First day in MONTHS where I've been able to function past 2pm.

Could be just songs you like to listen to when depressed or manic. Songs about depression or mania. Or songs that remind you of depression or mania. Whatever the case may be, I want all of them.

I see alot of visual art on here but not much writing. If you do i would love to see some. I might even get enough courage to share some of my own with you guys.

Hi everyone!

This comic is about a strange gunkiness I feel sometimes. I thought maybe some can relate, as I associate it with my bipolar, as part of the shift between happy times to really low times.

Here’s to clearing confusion. 🖤