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LIVING THE BI-POLAR LIFE
Welcome home!
Thank you for visiting The Bi-Polar Gathering. We want to speak to Bi-Polar Disorder medical professionals, researchers and therapists, non-profit support programs, and especially to you as you move through your one precious life living with, or caring for someone with, BPD.
We will be updating our website regularly to include the newest articles, research and book reviews on research about, and life with, Bi-Polar Disorder. Our Gathering Blogs give you a fast read on our newest finds, and the Reading Room has expanded write-ups and links to these articles and publications as well as a rotating series of personal stories from those who live every day with BPD.
The Gathering E-Rolodex is a work in progress. The E-Rolodex will be The Gathering's clearinghouse on all thing BPD, offering link contacts for regional and national BPD programs, clinics, research facilities, and websites which, though we cannot and do not endorse any of these sites, we feel are well grounded in fact and medical accuracy, and/or sponsored by well-respected national and international agencies, organizations and centers of learning.
The Friends of the Gathering Gift Shop offers well-crafted items featuring our signature van Gogh Starry Night logo and other fine images. Please visit us at: http://www.cafepress.com/friendsofthegathering
The Gathering Guestbook offers our visitors a place to share experiences, leave suggestions about articles and books for Gathering visitors, or just musings on a day with BPD.
We know you may have questions for which you have not found answers: write to us at the email address below and the Gathering Friends will do some research for you from a broad range of resources, all while keeping your anonymity. Please be patient, our response to you may take a few days.
THE BI-POLAR GATHERING LOGO:
'STARRY NIGHT'
The great painter Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) likely suffered from a bi-polar disorder most all his life, which brought him a way of seeing the world that he was able to translate with paint on canvas in a way never seen before. Van Gogh painted "Starry Night," his lovely studies of sunflowers, and many other wonderful paintings in his brief but intensely creative life, ending his days in an asylum at Saint-Rèmy in rural France under the care of his great friend Dr. Paul Gachet.
