STRUGGLES-2-STRENGTHS BLOG

I’m back. After taking a month away to recalibrate from burnout, I started writing a few paragraphs of this blog and realized it felt empty, like what I started writing was just more of the same as last time: “I burned out, I paused, I'm back. It’s ok, I live with bipolar, but here’s how I got through it, etc” Wash, rinse, repeat. But that's not what I'm trying to get at. I'm realizing that I want to go a little bit deeper and talk about what's behind the burnout and how it

Lately I’ve been experiencing that double-edged sword of gift and curse wrapped in one. We all experience in some part of who we are an asset that can feel like a liability. However it can also be the other way around- a liability that is an asset. A superpower. For me, that double-edged sword looks like the excitement and potential devastation of hypomania, a mood state experienced in Bipolar Disorder. This mood has started creeping up for me these past weeks, a state that i