PinnedBryan Barks·Dec 18, 2021To the Child I Still ImagineHow bipolar disorder complicated my dream of being a motherA response icon1A response icon1
Bryan Barks·Sep 10, 2020Suicide Prevention is PoliticalI’m realizing the inadequacy of relationships, personal kindnesses, and hotline numbers alone.
Bryan Barks·Jan 23, 2019My Eating Disorder Told Me to Be AshamedBut I’m speaking out as I work toward silencing the voice in my headA response icon8A response icon8
Bryan Barks·May 27, 2018In Defense of My Worst Enemy“While bipolar often feels like my adversary, I’ve spent much of the last year defending and explaining my illness.”
Bryan Barks·Dec 21, 2017I am lighting a candle for you.“The pain of realizing how many damn candles people have been lighting in my honor and how few I have been lighting for them.”
Bryan Barks·Sep 16, 2017Say “Suicide”I “came out” with bipolar disorder a year ago this week — during National Suicide Prevention Week. It was the most important thing I’ve…A response icon1A response icon1
Bryan Barks·Mar 12, 2017My grandfather, the poetsI grew up thinking poetry was a normal professional field. I thought being a poet was something you’d casually mention at a cocktail party…A response icon2A response icon2
Bryan Barks·Dec 4, 2016Sharing my newspaper to fight tyrannyThe other night, my husband and I arrived home to find a letter slipped under our door. It was a long note in jagged cursive from our…
