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The 3–10 day window before an episode peaks is real. Here's what the prodrome actually looks like, and how catching it changes the outcome.

Clinical research on bipolar prodromes — the early-phase symptoms that precede full episodes — and why recognizing your personal signature matters.

Daily logging fails during the episodes it's supposed to catch. What passive monitoring actually looks like instead.

A design problem, not a user problem. The compliance failure is baked into the model — and it breaks at exactly the moments that matter.

82% of people with bipolar report impulsive spending while hypomanic. Buying sprees are in the DSM criteria. Here's what actually happens and why.

Practical structures — set up during stable periods — that limit the financial damage an episode can do before you recognize it's happening.

The bipolar↔debt spiral is documented in the academic literature. What drives it, and what the evidence says about interrupting it.

When you can barely get out of bed, the pile of unopened mail doesn't stop growing. Structures that work when nothing else does.

An honest look at what's actually out there — mood loggers, chatbots, therapy platforms — and what each does and doesn't do for this diagnosis.

Not all AI tools are the same. What the research says about digital phenotyping, passive monitoring, and where AI genuinely helps versus where it doesn't.