About bipolar Courage
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Bipolar Courage is a blog of insights and art by Xanthe Wyse from New Zealand. Xanthe has been diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and social anxiety disorder.
Xanthe started Bipolar Courage during a depressive episode. Xanthe makes her own meaning and purpose with creative projects to keep her going through the challenges of the highs and lows that go with bipolar disorder and PTSD. Xanthe is very determined and chooses challenging projects that seemed 'ridiculous' at the time but gradually works towards them. In the process, her creative expression has been therapeutic. |
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Xanthe self-published Pet Purpose: Your Unspoken Voice in 2021. Pet Purpose is a pet themed semi-autobiographical novel with a character also with bipolar disorder and PTSD, she has completed around 80 artworks, filled dozens of journals (several are now destroyed) and hundreds of raw, unedited raw videos on You Tube about mental health and her creative process.
She had her first solo art as therapy exhibition, Spinning Orbit, in 2018. She set the goal of an exhibition of process artwork to get through a very difficult time. She had a second solo art as therapy exhibition, Speak, in 2020. The paintings helped to write Pet Purpose, which is the essence of Xanthe's story pulled apart and put back together in a creative way, like a multilayered painting. Pet Purpose took 7 years from conception to publication.
Xanthe is now writing the sequel, Soar Purpose. She is also writing a guide for people who want to write and publish a book, low cost. Not only so she can remember how to do it again, with short-term memory impairments, but also to help others.
Xanthe has been described by others as courageous and insightful. She is compelled to have a voice, a voice she could not have previously. Her artworks and novel are linked and tell aspects of her story in symbolism and metaphor.
She had her first solo art as therapy exhibition, Spinning Orbit, in 2018. She set the goal of an exhibition of process artwork to get through a very difficult time. She had a second solo art as therapy exhibition, Speak, in 2020. The paintings helped to write Pet Purpose, which is the essence of Xanthe's story pulled apart and put back together in a creative way, like a multilayered painting. Pet Purpose took 7 years from conception to publication.
Xanthe is now writing the sequel, Soar Purpose. She is also writing a guide for people who want to write and publish a book, low cost. Not only so she can remember how to do it again, with short-term memory impairments, but also to help others.
Xanthe has been described by others as courageous and insightful. She is compelled to have a voice, a voice she could not have previously. Her artworks and novel are linked and tell aspects of her story in symbolism and metaphor.
