Bipolar disorder (previously called manic depression) is a condition involving extreme mood changes between mania and depression. These shifts are much more intense than everyday mood changes and can have a big impact on life.
Only a mental health professional can diagnose bipolar disorder. Your GP can refer you for assessment and support.
Manic episodes can seriously affect daily life and may require hospital treatment.
Symptoms include:
Bipolar disorder often requires ongoing treatment, including medication and talking therapies.
During depressive episodes, someone may feel suicidal or believe life isn’t worth living. In a crisis, they should not be left alone and medical help should be sought immediately.
Bipolar UK and Mind offer helpful tools and guidance.
Calm is a popular digital mental wellness platform designed to help users manage stress, reduce anxiety, and improve sleep through guided meditation, sleep stories, breathing exercises, and relaxing soundscapes
A user-friendly app for patients to track their Bipolar symptoms to help them identify triggers and patterns, and help prevent relapses.
A free journal and mood tracker which uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tools to help you to analyse your thoughts and identify your thinking traps.
This app lets users log daily moods and activities using quick taps without requiring traditional typing. The app then compiles this data into visual charts and statistics to help identify behavioral patterns and triggers
If your partner, family member or friend works in UK policing, let them know there are lots of online resources on the Oscar Kilo website. They will need an Oscar kilo account to access the majority, an OK account can be created here by anyone with a .police.uk email address.
The resources on this page aim to directly support the mental health and wellbeing of everyone who works in policing.
Whether you're an officer, staff member or volunteer - whatever your role - there's material to support your mental health and physical health along with some bespoke toolkits for specific roles.