Julie is the recipient of the Mental Health America excellence in journalism award and was the original consultant for Claire Danes’s character on the TV show Homeland. She has a Facebook group for parents, The Stable Table, and for partners, The Stable Bed. She works as a parent and partner coach and regularly trains health care professionals, including psychiatric residents, pharmacists, general practitioners, therapists, and social workers, on bipolar disorder and psychotic disorder management. Julie is also a researcher and educator who focuses on bipolar disorder prevention and ways to recognize mood swings from the beginning-before they go too far and take over a person’s life. She is a longtime bp Magazine writer and the top blog contributor, with over 5 million blog views. 2), and The Health Cards Treatment System for Bipolar Disorder. Fast is the author of the bestselling mental health books Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder, Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner, Getting It Done When You’re Depressed, OMG, That’s Me! (vol. Learn more: VIDEO: Bipolar Disorder & Travel-How I Use Sleep to Stay Stable Bipolar Disorder-Label or Get Out of Jail Free Card? This is Julie Fast for bp Magazine’s bphope vlog. What can you do today to get your hands moving so you can stop thinking about what’s not going well and create something really beautiful. Occupational therapy helps us when we have bipolar disorder. They might be elaborate, they might be beautiful, they might not be beautiful.īut I can’t think of any time I’ve ever sat down and not felt better. On the days where my depression is overwhelming, I can’t write and I can’t think- sometimes I’ll sit down and I’ll say: alright, I’m just going to make something that I can wear and give away to somebody. I like to wear the jewlery that I make, and I give a lot of it away. This is, like I said, working on cars, doing videos…I’m trying to think of all the possible things that we have!Īnything that allows you to turn off the mind and create something can help when you have bipolar disorder. I’d like to suggest that if you have bipolar disorder, find something that can take your brain off of how you’re feeling and engage your hands. Jewelry is something, that along with working on cars, painting, doing photography, pottery, whittling-something that allows the hands to take over for the mind when its not doing well-is what I consider occupational therapy.įor some reason, we’ve been moving away from this. Within a year, I had started my own jewelry business. But I had bought a lot of jewelry and worn a lot of jewelry,īut believe it or not, from that one experience of doing a very poor job on this pin I made, I came out of the hospital thinking: “Wow, I’d like to learn more.’ I didn’t know how to do it, I didn’t know what it was. I remember the first time that I went to the hospital, we made jewelry. I want to talk today about bipolar disorder and occupational therapy.įor many years in the psych wards, we used to have occupational therapy. You might be wondering, what on earth am I holding? Occupational therapy can be a great way to cope with bipolar disorder symptoms as it allows you to get your mind off of negative thoughts and create something
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