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• When One Bipolar Marries Another: An Interview with Shannon Flynn
  Today I have the honor of interviewing Shannon Flynn, who works at the National Institute of Mental ...
• Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness
  Before beginning a review of Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness, this reviewer feels that it is necessary to disclose that it is the very first graphic novel she has ever read.  Keeping ...
• The Naked Bird Watcher, The Snow Globe Journals, and To Walk on Eggshells
  Bipolar disorder is an isolating disease that is difficult to describe and almost impossible to understand from the outside. Its relentless ups and downs create a crushing defeat in the lives of both sufferers and ...
• Intelligence Linked to Bipolar Disorder
  Research has indicated that bipolar disorder may be up to four times more common in young people who were straight-A students. A link between high IQ and bipolar disorder has been proposed for many years, ...
• My Trip to the ER: Attention Must Be Paid
  I'm a psych patient. My primary diagnosis is bipolar II, but there’s a little anxiety, PTSD and other stuff ...
• Bipolar Disorder and the Americans with Disabilities Act
  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was amended in 2008 to include bipolar disorder as a covered condition. The original 1988 law was designed to protect people with disabilities from discrimination in hiring, job assignments, ...
• Disturbances of the Mind
  Disturbances of the Mind by Douwe Draaisma is a book regarding various illnesses ranging from Bonnet Syndrome to Alzheimer’s, with an entire range of brain diseases in between.  It provides an interesting narrative about how ...
• The Bipolar Relationship: How to Understand, Help, and Love Your Partner
  The Bipolar Relationship: How to Understand, Help, and Love Your Partner by Jon P. Bloch, PHD, Bernard Golden, PHD and Nancy Rosenfeld is a very detailed and helpful book meant specifically for romantic partners of ...
• Approaching Neverland: A Memoir of Epic Tragedy & Happily Ever After
  In the 1960s, when author Peggy Kennedy grew up, mental illness was a family secret. It was whispered about, handed off to hospitals, restrained, subjected to electroshock therapy and slews of sedatives and sent back ...
• A High School Project on Depression
  I tutor a number of students from my local high school, which offers a remarkable English course called Psychology and Literature. What an idea! Although I’d never heard of such a course at any other ...
• Working and Socializing Through Acute Mental Health Episodes
  How do depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder affect work and socializing? Mental health problems can have a huge impact on lifestyle, affecting employment, socializing and family relationships. Working and feeling productive provides financial and social ...
• Pregnancy and Psychotropic Medications
  Pregnancy can be a challenging time for women with long-term mental disorders. While mental illness is common among women of childbearing age, it ...
• Spending Sprees in Bipolar Disorder
  People with bipolar disorder experience severe mood swings which can last several weeks or months. These include feelings of intense depression and ...
• Bipolar In Order
  Tom Wootton's new book, Bipolar In Order, asks the reader to approach bipolar disorder (otherwise known as manic depression) from a different light. Rather than viewing this mental health condition as a problem needing a ...
• The Link Between Bipolar Disorder and Creativity
  People with bipolar disorder experience episodes of both mania (an exceptionally elevated, irritable, or energetic mood) and depression. These episodes may be separate or depressed and manic symptoms may occur at the same time. The ...
• Challenges for Caregivers of Bipolar Disorder
  Individuals with bipolar disorder have severe mood swings, which can last several weeks or months. These can include feelings of intense depression and despair, manic feelings of extreme happiness, and mixed moods such as depression ...
• Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
  It was back in the '50s. One day my friend's mother just disappeared. That Sunday as they gathered in the church parking lot, the other mothers whispered. My friend stood next to me and cried. ...
• What’s the Difference Between Depression and Manic Depression?
  Sometimes people are confused about the differences between clinical depression and manic depression. And it's no wonder -- they both have the word "depression" in their names. That's one of the reason's manic depression's clinical ...
• The Depression Advantage
  Depression, like other mental illnesses, is rarely seen as a good thing. While many can articulate positive things about having a mental illness (or knowing someone who does), the illness itself is almost never ...
• Hiding Behind the Pulpit with Bipolar Disorder
  I have an illness that affects nearly 1 out of every 17 Americans, and affects 1 out of every 5 families. This disease is chronic in nature, and can only be controlled, not cured. It ...
• Extreme Thinking and Moods Are The Death of Creativity
  You probably have heard that many of the world's most creative people often had some sort of mental illness. While I can see some truth in this viewpoint, I offer a different opinion: In ...
• Bipolar Disorder Fact Sheet
  All of us experience changes in our moods. Some days we might feel irritable and frustrated; other days, we’re happy and excited. However, individuals with bipolar disorder experience severe mood swings that impair their ...
• Living with Schizoaffective Disorder, Part 3
  If You Think You're Mentally Ill If you feel you may be suffering from a mental illness, or could be in danger of doing so, I urge you in the strongest terms to seek the advice ...
• Living with Schizoaffective Disorder, Part 2
  The Heebee-Jeebies Be careful when you wrestle with monsters, lest you thereby become one. For, if you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you. -- Friedrich Nietszche Now I ...
• Living with Schizoaffective Disorder
  Being schizoaffective is like having manic depression and schizophrenia at the same time. It has a quality all its own though which is harder to pin down. Manic depression is characterized by a cycle of ...