Bipolar anger can build quickly. Here’s why it happens — and the strategies that can help you manage it before it takes over. It starts with a routine annoyance — the living room is a mess again, or ...

Before the hospital, I was Jen. After the hospital, for the following two years, I became whatever diagnosis was etched on my chart. Bipolar, depression, psychosis, oppositional defiant, obsessive ...

These days, I don’t often wake up unhappy. Quite to the contrary, I’m usually annoyingly chipper in the mornings—singing along with the oldies I love, and dancing while I deftly scramble some eggs.