I suffer from cyclothemia, which is on the bipolar spectrum. It's up the rapid-rapid-cycling end. I'm blogging this so I don't forget!
Here's a selection of support forums and sites. Mostly, they cover not only support of those affected, but also for families, loved ones and friends.
I suggest starting here:
http://www.bipolaruk.org.uk
This is the National UK charity. They've got a community forum and other pages. You need to register before they let you in to even view the forums, so it does it's best to keep things private (or at least not indexed by Google). They also have a database of self-help groups. Some run evenings, some during the day.
Other sites:
- Pretty good forum: http://www.bipolarsupport.org/
- Webinars and some interesting articles: http://www.internationalbipolarfoundation.org/
- A useful page for general info about bipolar (and also it's a big site for mental illness in general): http://www.mind.org.uk/help/diagnoses_and_conditions/bipolar_disorder_manic_depression
- Large variety of forums in useful categories and various help articles (they also do paid 1-1 counselling over online chat if that's the kind of thing that would help): http://www.turn2me.org
- Fairly small community site, but it's UK-based and deals with bipolar and other associated disorders: http://www.mindsupport.co.uk/
- Lots of helpful articles on a basic level and they have a VERY good recommended book list: http://www.bipolaraware.co.uk/
- Yahoo group that seems fairly active: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Bipolar_Dream/
- Kind of a directory of bipolar resources, lots of links on here including faith-based self-help sites if that's of any interest.: http://psychcentral.com/resources/Bipolar/Support_Groups/
The nature of the disorder means that if one gets into using them, then you tend to flit between them during manic episodes and dwell on one in particular during depressive episodes.
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