The Many Faces of Bipolar

The many faces of Bipolar by James Heaton I have been bipolar my entire life, as long as I can remember. My earliest memories paint a portrait of a child who was happy and energetic one moment and sad and depressed the next. Memories of blacking out or having depersonalization to the point of thinking …

The Art of Coping

By James Heaton We all know the drill. You see your doctor, in the 15 minutes that you are given to explain all the complexities of your disorder and the changes that have been happening in your mind. And we struggle with a way to explain that our thoughts are bizarre and scary, but at …

We All Fall Down.. Part II

I went from these waves of colorful thoughts, these brilliant moments of creativity to breaking down in my wife’s arms and crying about losing my mind

We all fall down sometimes..

A struggle with medication and the pressures of life send James over the edge, and the one person to save him is his Wife.

The Simulation

The things I forgot to remember...

ECT: The Quiet Place

A first hand account of ECT including three years after...