BipolarDad

Living With Bipolar II: What It Feels Like and What Actually Helps

This episode digs into Bipolar II from lived experience, showing how hypomania and depression can look very different from common expectations and why that makes the condition easy to miss.
Hypomania often feels like confidence or productivity—faster thinking, less sleep, more socializing—but can lead to impulsive decisions, irritability, and an eventual crash. Depression in Bipolar II is frequently deep and disabling, making routine tasks overwhelming and fueling shame when moods shift.
The host shares concrete signs to watch for (sleep loss, increased speed, irritability), simple daily strategies (prioritize sleep, keep anchors and structure, add friction to big choices), and practical supports (pattern tracking, trusted people, safety nets for spending and decisions).
Medication and therapy are framed as personal, clinician-guided tools that can help alongside skills and community supports. The episode ends with brief, actionable reminders: shrink today’s goal if you’re depressed, protect sleep and delay big moves if you’re elevated, and build routines and supports to make stability the default.

Minnesota has answer to opiods

Minnesota legislators have good idea about prisons and opiods.

KMA-We have a problem.

Bipolar-2 grandfather reading from one of his 8 books...the KMA Syndrome...a generational problem that is coming to a head.

Thriving after 75

Ater a bipolar-2 life, I retired following clinical depression.
I was not concerned about what comes next, because that is how the bipolar brains work.
Since the early retirement in 2008, I have picked up a dozen part-tim gigs.
Check it out:  www.jamesstordahl.com

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Audio narration...Your Soul's path

Audi narration...Your Souls Path

Groove to the music

Studies continue to show how much music means to all of us. How it makes us move.
Item#2 is touching on the national suicide hotline...988...where th current administration has cut off access to LGBTQ folks. WTH!!!

Homicide is down, shoplifting rises

As we continue to recover from the Pandemic, studies show decrease in homicides, but an increase in shoplifting.
We are still hungry.

Tuck Fuel

British film crew comes to USA

On a randum Monday, I received a call from the Iowa Department of Economic Security. They were in touch with a British film crew, working for Freemantle. The crew was in need of a qualified big rig driver who knew the backroads of Iowa. And also someone who could spend seven days with this crew as the documented the USA travels of the TV show, "Who's smarter than..." I said look no further...Im your guy!!