Abstract:This paper is about making sense of bipolar disorder. We open with lines from a poem titled "Oasis of Life" by the poet /coauthor of this article which are part of his endeavor to know and tell some of his embodied experience living with bipolar disorder. We then use this poetry as a framework for interpreting stories of others living with/ supporting someone living with bipolar disorder as described by three members-two sisters and their mother-from a family where both sisters and their father have bipolar di… Show more
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