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Bipolar Support Groups

 

When you're so happy you could kill yourself.   You've just bought every single thing on eBay imaginable regarding your world-conquering project, only to plunge into the depths of despair when one of the things doesn't quite fit into your nebulous plans and the bills for your maxed-out credit cards are now due.  Where do you turn for support?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mood Garden - Online home of a New Jersey-based support group, but open to anyone.  Meds, life on the mood yo-yo, comorbid anxiety & panic, support for people with bipolar family members, and the horrors of poetry. 

 

For the face-to-face groups, there's one place to start if you're depressed or bipolar: The Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance Directory of Support Groups

 

There's also a bipolar meet up the second Monday of each month.

 

 

Brainstorm:  Your Pediatric Bipolar InfoSource  Absolutely fantastic and vital resource for all of you parents out there with bipolar children.  This is the no bullshit place to go for information on meds, treatments, dealing with doctors and schools and just dealing with more than one life ravaged by an illness that is hard enough to be comprehended by an adult who has it.  It's a moderately active forum, but well worth being involved with if your kid is on the bipolar rollercoaster and/or med-go-round.

 

 

Here's where I used to hang out a lot: the Bipolar Fora on about.com. I was the co-host of the Medications folder and former host of the News & Information folder on the main forum.  The support and information here is the amongst the best.  It's the best free site I've seen, and that's why I was there often until Crazy Meds took over my life.

 

The DBSA people have their own online group.

 

A Silver Lining - an in-depth site that covers a great deal of territory - the medical, the psychological, the creative, the news and the humor of bipolar disorder.  Health On the Net compliant.

 

Bipolar Support.org - Dealing with the stigma, your family, insurance and legal issues, meds, creative urges, meds everything else that makes up life on the mental yo-yo.

 

Bipolar Disorder Web Community - The new home for the former MSN group.  Mostly dealing with therapies and the various destructive and painful aspects of bipolar - mania, depression, suicidal thoughts, addictive behavior and writing poetry.  Doctor moderated, which is a big plus.

 

Bipolar Aware - Bipolar Brits!  This UK-based community that deals with treatments, diagnoses, family, friends, and life on the manic-depressive rollercoaster.

 

livejournal's Bipolar Community - Blogging as part of support group activity.   At least one study has shown journaling to be a positive way of dealing with emotional trauma.  Also look for bipolar sites elsewhere in the blogshere.  E.g. bptii.blogs.com, Banjk's Bipolar Blog at journalspace.com bipolar.blogging.com

 

Support for Spouses & Family of the Bipolar

 

Support for Parents of Bipolar Children

 

Orkut's Bipolar Community - a new group in the growing, albeit somewhat exclusive and geeky online community.

 

tribe.net's bipolar tribe - If you're part of tribe net, you know the deal.  If you're not, you can find out.

Das Selbsthilfe–Forum www.bipolar-forum.de - Forum for Germany's depression & bipolar support alliance.  "Das Selbsthilfe - Forum dient als unabhängige Plattform für bipolar Erfahrene, deren Angehörige, Partner, Freunde, Selbsthilfegruppen und – initiativen sowie Interessierte. Es bietet die Möglichkeit zum Informationsaustausch und Präsentation von Arbeiten, zwecks Verbesserung der Gesundheit, des Wohlbefindens und der Lebenssituation."  Alles in Deutsche.

Trouble bipolaire  /  Maniaco-dépression - fora-based site.  Mostly support, but offering some information on books, meds and treatments.  C'est tout en français.  " Nous sommes un petit groupe de bipolaires, ou maniaco-dépressifs, et d'accompagnants. Notre site tente de favoriser la communication, comme de fournir certaines bases d'information sur notre affection."

 

The Open Directory Guide to Bipolar Support Groups

 

Alexa's Version of the Open Directory of Bipolar Support Groups

 

The McMan Web Guide to Affective Disorder Support Groups.

 

How to explain having Bipolar Disorder to others

 

Suicide Crisis Resources Crisis intervention and support for survivors.

 

The About Bipolar Suicide Support Page 

 

There's also the page of sites with more information about bipolar disorder.

 

 

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If you know of any good bipolar support groups / fora / chat rooms where you don't have to register just to take a look (but I'm fine with guests not being able to post or otherwise participate, just being able to look around is my only criterion), send an e-mail to jerod23 at gmail dot com and I'll check them out.  Even if you're starting your own let me know.  There's no guarantee I'll list it, but you never know.  English language is not a requirement. 

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Take care of yourself, and keep taking your crazy meds!

Jerod (click here to e-mail me, or just drop a note to jerod23 at gmail dot com)

 

Created Monday, November 29, 2004

Last updated Saturday, May 15, 2010

 

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