Is This Real? Holding on to Reality With Bipolar Disorder

My journey with psychosis

Saturday morning cartoons were my happy place. | Image made by the author with Canva AI.

I started this draft on January 2, 2022, and finally got around to finishing it thanks to Medium’s Draft Day. More here: MediumDraftDay.com

My bipolar disorder diagnosis came in the spring of 1995, while I was confined to a psychiatric hospital. Looking back, there are things that were bipolar…