Manic Monique's Meanderings: My Journey to Wellness

Tonight I checked in with a friend who recently tried to commit suicide. Thankfully, she's doing much better and is in recovery. She the...

If you go back and re-read (or read for the first time) the blog entries for March 2015 it's pretty evident that I was headed for a mani...

My blog is about my life, living and thriving ( not surviving) with bipolar disorder. I write about my diagnosis but I also write about my ...

Rutgers University was my first choice for graduate school for my MSW (Master's in Social Work). Unfortunately, they did not accept me ...

Back in December , I mentioned that I was interviewed for the spring issue of BP   Magazine (Bipolar Magazine). Well, that issue has been p...

In June 2013, my Seroquel dose was increased from 600mg to 800mg. Seroquel is notorious for weight gain as a side effect. Mind you, I had b...

When my bipolar disorder manifested, or rather, I should say, when I was diagnosed, I was 23 and in graduate school. I had recently begun da...