From Manic Depression and Creativity – A Book Review, by Paul Bloch, Serendip blog. Manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder, is a mental disorder, which is characterized by a cyclic shift in moods between mania and depression. Manic symptoms include hyperactivity, inflated self-esteem, high risk activity, decrease need for sleep, distractibility, and flight of [...]
By his mid-twenties, Andrew Solomon earned international accolades for his work as a novelist, journalist and historian. At 31 he descended into a major depression. He was helped by a combination of family support, medications and talk therapy. Andrew Solomon : Depression is an illness of loneliness. And the primary experience is the feeling of [...]
Excerpts from free ebook Natural Help For Bipolar Disorder : While Western medicine has become the norm in many cultures, it is not the only treatment option. Conventional western medicine, often called allopathic medicine, is the system of medicine taught at most medical schools and most pharmaceutical and synthetic medicines are manufactured and marketed according [...]
According to The National Institute of Mental Health, in America alone, more than 6 million men have depression each year. Here are some excerpts from a Los Angeles Times article: In May 2003, four-time Superbowl quarterback Terry Bradshaw embarked on a multi-city campaign sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the antidepressant Paxil, to discuss his own [...]
“Depressed, I have crawled on my hands and knees in order to get across a room and have done it for month after month. But normal or manic I have run faster, thought faster, and loved faster than most I know.” Kay Redfield Jamison Depression can be a profoundly damaging and disrupting condition, spiritually and [...]
Terri Cheney, a former entertainment lawyer, recounts her decades-long struggle with bipolar disorder in her new book “Manic: A Memoir.” Hilary MacGregor writes in the Los Angeles Times, “The book is not the first to give an autobiographical account of living bipolar. It joins the ranks of Kay Redfield Jamison‘s “An Unquiet Mind,” Carrie Fisher‘s [...]
