Last year around this time, I happened to be at the tail end of an east coast road trip, with Washington DC as my final stop. At the last minute, I discovered that Frederick Goodwin, MD, co-author with Kay Jamison PhD of the definitive Manic-Depressive Illness, would be giving a talk to the local DBSA while I was in town.To describe Dr. Goodwin as... Read more
At the navigation bar at the top of this page, if you click Manage and go to Recovery, you will find a series of articles I have been doing here at BipolarConnect.My intention was to follow a strict outline, based on a series of principles I had previously articulated in a blog here, entitled McMan's Eight-fold Path to Living Well.These included... Read more
It's autumn here in southern California. Citizens are braving sub-70 temperatures to stock up on winter gear. The local clothing stores report a run on heavy weave Hawaiian shirts. At coffee shops, patrons are requesting less ice blended into their frozen frappuccinos. The other day, I spotted a convertible with its top up. From San Diego's North... Read more
The term, manic-depression, was coined by the pioneering diagnostician, Emil Kraepelin, back in the early twentieth century. There is a common misconception that manic-depression is simply the old fashioned term for bipolar disorder, but Kraepelin applied that term to plain vanilla depression, as well.In Kraepelin's mind, depression and what we... Read more
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