I don’t always trust the way the government uses its funds to research on health. If you ask me why all that negativity, I turn to you: Do these studies look like good ways of using around a couple hundred… Continue Reading
Health professionals have known about the problem of this time lag for years, and back in 1999 were asking in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, “Is bipolar disorder still underdiagnosed? Are antidepressants overutilized?” The short answer is, ‘yup.’ That study… Continue Reading
Preparing for ECT: You can make a difference Lest you try to discount my advice by thinking, “Wait a minute, that can’t happen to me. That gal’s off the charts!” I acknowledge–fully–that in the field of mental health I’ve spent much… Continue Reading
I’m a recipient of a Google Alert on Bipolar Disorder. This just means that Google automatically notifies me when there’s new news (as opposed to the old kind, I guess) on the web on BD. It can be from news… Continue Reading
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun –Ecclesiastes 1:9 You know, I’d say there’s a better than even chance that when King Solomon wrote those words–let’s… Continue Reading
; “I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would be not one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell. I… Continue Reading
It has been ‘known’ in the way that you know things deep down, when you don’t really consciously want to know them, that seriously mentally ill people, on average, die younger than those without mental illness. But it was an ugly shock… Continue Reading
