guest post by Kathleen Founds  My bear began as a scribble on a scrap of paper–a tiny cartoon I drew for the amusement of a friend in a grad school fiction writing class. (At the age of 26, I was probably too old to be passing notes. In my defense, the classes were three hours long, and doodling in the margins of my notebook helped me sit still.) The little cartoon was titled “Bipolar Bear.” It had two panels. In one, a manic bear declares, with expansive hand gestures, “I’m the king of the forest!” In the other panel, the … Continue reading Spotlight: I Got Through Thirteen Years of Bipolar Depression by Drawing Bears