“My story starts around where my teenage years end. I use to say that there´s a life before, and a life after.

I had just turned 21 and life was ahead of me; I studied at the university, I was getting engaged.

But my dreams crashed into pieces. My boyfriend left me and my broken heart and I ended up in a psychiatric clinic. I hadn´t eaten and slept for weeks, my thoughts floated in a borderland somehow, my energy was overhuman and my anxiety level high.

I was psychotic they said, manic, sick, weird, crazy…and my whole world fell apart.

It took seven years to actually understand my new me. It took a trip through hell to understand that my ups and downs were symptoms of a disease called bipolar. Multipolar, I would say. Because my world hasn´t been black and white, it has been extreme, but definitely not black and white.

After seven years I found the right doctor, the right medicin, the right therapy and with the loving care of my beloved ones I understood that life is also there for me, that it also for me was possible to live it fully, and that I through every season in life could create my own meaning, my purpose, my thousand reasons to live.

So somewhere after that “after”, my idea was born to make an application, mainly in swedish, where I could follow my moodchanges. I also wanted my doctor to be able to follow me and that he/she together with the application would be able to give me precise tools to handle my everyday life.

I´m so thankful to have met Patrik, Rohit and Siju in this process; they received my ideas with respect anf great interest. Together we are now laying the ground of what is BIPOPULAR. We all have great passion in our unique ways, for helping the bipolar community. We´re not doctors or psychologists, we´re regular people with experiences in life, abilities and knowledge and together we want to make a difference for you and the society we all live in.”

/Veronica Schelander
Co-founder of BIPOPULAR, teacher, writer and lecture holder