My last blog was part 1of 2, titled, With Every Up Comes a Down Recap: I have bipolar disorder. After being on the same dose of my mood stabilizer for many years, I became so exhausted it was hard for me to think. Just functioning, trying to do everyday tasks, was becoming a huge challenge.… Continue reading Mental Illness Recovery Part 2/2
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With Every Up Comes a Down. I Went Manic Again.
Part 1 of 2 I’m grateful to be back! I haven’t posted a blog since May of this year, 2025. I have bipolar disorder, and I became tired and exhausted from all the meds I am on to treat it. I have been on the same medicines for years and wanted to see if I… Continue reading With Every Up Comes a Down. I Went Manic Again.
It’s a different kind of beautiful
It has been 17 years since my moderate tbi and I’m 56 now. I can’t remember what I do day to day. That makes me sad because then I think I didn’t do anything and that I’m lazy. My family says that’s not true, so I’m going to journal about my life. I did two… Continue reading It’s a different kind of beautiful
Suicide After Mild Brain Injury
I recently read a book called Giving Light to Darkness by Laura Kimbro. It is about her son that was diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury that committed suicide. When Veronica and I teach high school students, we ask the students if any of them have been diagnosed with a concussion or mild traumatic… Continue reading Suicide After Mild Brain Injury
Poor Mental Health Can Be Devastating
So many of us suffer anxiety, depression, and even mania in my case. I have bipolar disorder, as I wrote about in my book, A Miracle a Day, One Day at a Time: Hope After Traumatic Brain Injury. I shared every detail of this particularly difficult episode of depression and mania, which I suffered, that… Continue reading Poor Mental Health Can Be Devastating
Dawn Corbelli 