I want to take a moment to brag on myself. I started this blog in September 2014. I have been blogging now for seven and a half years. Many other people blogging about bipolar disorder around the same time I started have moved on to doing other work and have just about given up the blogging life. I’ve considered joining them–not posting as much, maybe posting just when something significant occurs, maybe just saying goodbye to it and closing down altogether.
But I get so much out of doing it. Many of my essays I have gone on to publish started out as blog posts. It was sometimes the only writing I was doing, during those low points when I despaired of ever writing another word someone else would want to read. But my readers stuck with me through it all; the doubt, the anger, the days when I just wanted to give up on life itself. This blog has been there.
The past two years have been phenomenal for my writing. I started writing for MCIR. I finished my degree with a completed memoir. I wrote personal columns that went all across the state and region, and I started blogging for BP Hope about my disorder. And now I see on Feedspot (see the link down low on the right side of my blog) that Day By Day is considered a top-twenty bipolar blog.
Thanks for all of these very satisfactory years of reaching people with my lived experience and hope that things could be better.