eprintid: 10047103
rev_number: 26
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2018-04-19 11:21:27
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Mandla, A
creators_name: Billings, J
creators_name: Moncrieff, J
title: "Being Bipolar": A Qualitative Analysis of the Experience of Bipolar Disorder as Described in Internet Blogs
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D79
keywords: Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Nursing, Psychiatry, PREVALENCE, SPECTRUM
note: © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: In the light of debates about the nature of bipolar disorder (BD), the current article presents a thematic analysis of Internet “blogs” by self-identified bipolar sufferers. Extreme and frequent fluctuation of mood was considered the principal feature of BD, along with a broad range of other problems. BD was often invoked as an explanation for life difficulties or lack of achievement, and was mostly regarded as a brain disease. Most bloggers emphasized the importance of drug treatment, along with the self-management techniques. The blogs present a “bipolar identity,” which is much broader than traditional definitions, are based on a medicalized model of the disorder, and are connected to the moral function of enabling people to externalize unwanted aspects of the self.
date: 2017-09-05
date_type: published
publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
official_url: http://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2017.1355947
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1419306
doi: 10.1080/01612840.2017.1355947
lyricists_name: Billings, Joanne Lynn
lyricists_name: Moncrieff, Joanna
lyricists_id: JLBIL35
lyricists_id: JMMON33
actors_name: Moncrieff, Joanna
actors_name: Laslett, David
actors_id: JMMON33
actors_id: DLASL34
actors_role: owner
actors_role: impersonator
full_text_status: public
publication: Issues in Mental Health Nursing
volume: 38
number: 10
pagerange: 858-864
pages: 7
issn: 1096-4673
citation:        Mandla, A;    Billings, J;    Moncrieff, J;      (2017)    "Being Bipolar": A Qualitative Analysis of the Experience of Bipolar Disorder as Described in Internet Blogs.                   Issues in Mental Health Nursing , 38  (10)   pp. 858-864.    10.1080/01612840.2017.1355947 <https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2017.1355947>.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047103/1/Moncrieff_BD_IMHN_accepted0717.pdf