As if wearing the hijab wasn’t hard enough already, having bipolar and trying to stay modest gets even harder. There’s something no one knows about the silent struggle of bipolar hijabis. So why does having mental illness make it harder to keep the scarf on your head?
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It’s been over a decade that I haven’t been able to fast. When I got bipolar, the Ramadans around that time were very tough. Before the disorder came on, the month of fasting became a “high” time. With each day of starvation, I would sleep less and less. I would eat less and still have so much energy. That quickly spiraled out of control.
Yesterday was day three of my intermittent fasting, well if you can call it that. Unlike these three neat balls of yarn, I’m starting to unravel. I know, already eh? And not the kind where the thread neatly unwinds only to become a beautiful sweater. I’m talking about a cat grabbing hold of the ball, throwing it up in the air, again and again until it is a tight mess.
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