"Growing Up Bipolar," read the cover story to this week's Newsweek magazine.I was dreading to pick up the issue and open it. Based on the appalling coverage of early onset bipolar last year in the media, I knew what to expect:Something along the lines of: "Lazy mother in collusion with organized psychiatry and the drug industry poisons own child ... Read more
I arrived back home in rural southern California late Wednesday night. Two days before, on the opposite coast, I gave a grand rounds lecture to about 60 clinicians at Princeton House, a psychiatric facility associated with the Princeton Healthcare System in Princeton, NJ.Therapists and social workers made up the bulk of my audience, but a... Read more
Friday, Central Connecticut. I'm at my mom's place, not far from
where I grew up. My brother and sister-in-law will be arriving shortly. There
is no internet at my mom's, so I will get this off sometime tomorrow. To
rewind:
Wednesday, Washington DC - I wake up refreshed from a sound
sleep. I'm out of the danger zone. The night before... Read more
I am writing this at 4 in the morning. I have been lying
horizontal in the dark for the past 4 hours, failing miserably to close the
deal with the gods of sleep. Two hours
between 10 and midnight - that was it. Then my racing mind took over. I'm in DC
at the APA annual meeting, and I'm obviously way overstimulated.
I have no... Read more
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