Our Bipolar
This is our bipolar disorder. Our experiences. Our bipolar community. Here at Our Bipolar, we redefine bipolar disorder through personal stories and community.
Welcome in! I’m Jess Curtis, wife, mom, editor, and bipolar advocate.
I’ve had 27 years of experience living with bipolar: mania, psychosis, depression, hypomania, mixed episodes, and yes, stability (the holy grail!). I talk about all of it to give a fuller picture of life with bipolar.
This channel strives to break stigma, offer support, and promote better understanding of bipolar disorder.
Our Bipolar
FRIDAY
3 PM EST/12 PM PST
I’m doing a live with my friend Steph on her YouTube channel @BipolarPerson! We both have bipolar 1.
Come hang out and ask questions!
-Jess
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TOMORROW!
Bipolar Q&A YT Live
Ask Me Anything | my birthday bash! 🎂
SATURDAY
1 pm EST/10 am PST
Can’t wait to chat, answer questions, and celebrate with you! 🎉
-Jess
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New video tomorrow!
Come along with me as I go to an amusement park as someone with bipolar and chronic migraine. 🎢
Includes an update a week later to see if I was able to avoid symptoms of bipolar or migraine… or neither… or both?🤞🏼
➡️ Video will be out Saturday at 1 pm EST!
-Jess
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➡️ Our next live is on Sunday, NOT Saturday.
I’m busy on Saturday this weekend.
I can’t wait to see you on SUNDAY at 1 pm EST/10 am PST! 🙌🏼
-Jess
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Bipolar masking at it’s finest.
Or I can look chewed up and spit out by the hurricane.
Or I can look like I do here—stable, content, and self assured—and feel the same way.
It just depends on the day. How about you? Let us know in the comments. ⬇️
-Jess
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#bipolar #bipolardisorder #bipolarawareness #masking
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NEW VIDEO! Do you ever feel like you’re not “bipolar enough”?
I have bipolar 1, and even after living with bipolar disorder for nearly three decades, I sometimes feel like a fraud. Especially when I’ve been stable for a long time.
I know that’s a good thing, but sometimes being stable makes me question whether I really fit into the bipolar community.
But having bipolar doesn’t come with a requirement to be sick all the time.
If you have a bipolar diagnosis, you belong and so do I. ❤️
- Jess
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Join us for the next YouTube Live! This Saturday 9/5 at 1 pm EST.
➡️ It’s an AMA about my life with bipolar 1
A little bit about me if you’re new here (welcome!!!):
🔥 I was diagnosed bipolar 1 almost 30 years ago
🔥 I work full-time as managing editor for a scientific journal
🔥 l've been married to a neurotypical for 15 years
🔥 We have a 10-year-old daughter
I've seen some things—years of extreme highs and lows with little stability and years mostly symptom free.
Psychosis. Loneliness. Shame & self-stigma. External stigma. Side effects. Wanting to end my life. Also contentment and loving my life.
Ask all the questions. The chat can answer too!
-Jess
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Interview out now!
I found this workbook really helpful, and Dr. Andrea is fantastic! Watch now and let me know what you think.
-Jess
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Saturday at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific
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And I’m married! 😂
Bipolar is also till death do us part, so i’m willing to put in the effort to make this relationship work.
How much effort do you put into your relationship with bipolar? Tell us in the comments. ⬇️
-Jess
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#bipolar #bipolardisorder #bipolarawareness
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