Some weight you choose. Some gets handed to you before you’re old enough to set it down. Issue #4 of the Poetic Bipolar Mind Substack, “The Weight I Learned to Carry,” is live now — a new piece of writing about the burdens that shape us, and what changes when you stop just surviving them…

What would you sell yourself for? In Episode 3 of the Poetic Bipolar Mind podcast, “Self-Worth,” Kiana Jimenez prices herself piece by piece — eyes for a penny, lips for a nickel — in a poem that starts at “Lately, I feel worthless” and lands on the one thing no one could put a price…

Have you ever watched the world move around you and felt… nothing? Episode 2 of the Poetic Bipolar Mind podcast, “A World in Gray,” puts words to the numbness so many of us carry in silence — the black-and-white days, the smiles that twist into frowns, the light that feels like it went out. It’s…