Sarah Ellis

Dwelling in darkness and reaching for light

A diagnosis of bipolar disorder means your life is exhausting, requires resilience, and is outside the ordinary. It’s not something to be played for laughs.


Sarah R. Ellis is a writer, disability advocate, and former teen librarian who grew up in Brattleboro and now calls Burlington home. To learn more about bipolar disorder, visit the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance or the International Bipolar Foundation.


BURLINGTON-I just went to a thoughtful, progressive show that happened to include a joke about bipolar disorder, an offhand comment that played the diagnosis for laughs and used "bipolar" as a shorthand for irrational and unstable.

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Peace, justice education is needed in our schools

In the past weeks, with great sorrow and dismay, we have read editorial responses disagreeing with the settlement of the court case regarding the death of Phoebe Prince, the 15-year-old girl from South Hadley, Mass. who committed suicide last year after enduring months of relentless bullying. As students of...

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