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Walter
  • By Walter · Posted yesterday at 10:03 pm
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • Hello everyone. We'll be upgrading some bits of Inspire during the evening of Wednesday, December 3rd. As a result Inspire will be offline from roughly 7 pm to midnight Eastern time. Thanks so much for ...

Biopsy gone wrong

pinkflowers24
  • By pinkflowers24 · Posted September 22, 2008
  • Journal · 9 replies
  • I had a needle core biopsy done on August 25th. I did what they told me to do, but when the sterrie strips came off it got infected. I had red streaks coming from it, so I went to my doctor and they put ...

Mania or hypomani

sport
  • By sport · Posted September 17, 2008
  • Discussion in Living with bipolar disorder · 1 reply
  • I'm curious about descriptions of manic or hypomanic episodes. Depression, I suspect, is more alike than mania ...

This New Label

LDSMima
  • By LDSMima · Posted September 10, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • I don't know where to paste this new label on my body. I have several disorders that I live with and I haven't figured out where to place them either, now there is a new one. My counselor is so helpful ...

Patient Voices on NY Times

sgreene
  • By sgreene · Posted August 9, 2008
  • Discussion in Living with bipolar disorder · 2 replies
  • There is a new series on the New York Times that gives voice to patients, and the last posting was on bipolar disorder. Seven people talk about the condition and how it has affected their lives. Here's ...

Me

lola53
  • By lola53 · Posted June 30, 2008
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • Is there any one here???? Bi-polar disorder is an interesting diagnosis. When things are "normal" you wonder about yourself a lot...when things are "crazy" you believe you are the only normal person around ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 10, 2008
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

Gait problems & Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)... Any hope?

serendipity
  • By serendipity · Posted June 8, 2008
  • Journal · 48 replies
  • I have found quite a few other postings regarding SPS, so I would like to share this and am hopeful that some of you can offer your input.... I am posting this in all of the Groups to which I belong in ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 1, 2008
  • Journal · 23 replies
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

Just give me strength

hopeful3
  • By hopeful3 · Posted April 28, 2008
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • I do not ask to walk a smooth path nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock-strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, and transform each ...

On my knees

hopeful3
  • By hopeful3 · Posted April 26, 2008
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go . Abraham Lincoln ...

Life...

hopeful3
  • By hopeful3 · Posted April 24, 2008
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • Life is either a daring adventure or nothing, To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. -Helen Keller ...

Thank you, God

hopeful3
  • By hopeful3 · Posted April 22, 2008
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • Oh God, I thank You for this day of life for eyes to see the sky for ears to hear the birds for feet to walk amidst the trees for hands to pick the flowers from the earth for a sense of smell to breathe ...

Morning Prayer

hopeful3
  • By hopeful3 · Posted April 21, 2008
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • Christian Glitter by www.christianglitter.com ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
  • Journal · 134 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

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