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The Bipolar Disorder Challenge: Cognitive Functioning Must We Sacrifice Our Super-powers in the Pursuit of Stability?

Must We Sacrifice Our Super-powers in the Pursuit of Stability?   This is the sixth post dealing with how our ability to think and process information relates to mood. The first four posts focussed on all the things that commonly go wrong that we need to know. Last week, in Making our Amazing but Problematic Brains Work for Us, we explored... Read moreChevron
posted 09/25/2011, comments (3)|
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Finding Your Inner Child - Bipolar Question of the Week

Ah kids. They're everywhere. Hopefully, this includes most of us. Maybe I haven't grown up. At any rate, I like to think of myself as an honorary kid.   I just got back from a Heart Walk in Balboa Park in San Diego. I was part of a drum circle that entertained 9,000 participants strolling past. A lot of families had their kids in tow, many... Read moreChevron
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Problems Thinking in Bipolar - The Sleep Connection

This is the latest in our series of posts looking at thinking difficulties in dealing with bipolar disorder. As I noted in Problems Thinking, the pioneering diagnostician Emil Kraepelin referred to “amentia” in his description of what he described as manic-depression (a term he coined) way back in the early twentieth century.... Read moreChevron
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Problems Thinking - A New Bipolar Conversation

If only we inherited brains in decent working order. Mood is only one small part of it. Thinking seems to be the major challenge. Charlotte writes:I am used to gathering facts and making decisions based on my collection of information.  It is hard to gather those facts when I am stressed...my "fight-or-flight" system is on overdrive. ... Read moreChevron
posted 08/28/2011, comments (4)|
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People Who Inspire You - Bipolar Question of the Week

I’m at Sacramento Airport waiting for my flight home to San Diego from three days of the NAMI California convention. Conferences always wear me out. I am thrown off all my routines vital to maintaining good mental health, including diet, exercise, and sleep. I can’t wait to crash in my own bed tonight.But the people I ran into more... Read moreChevron
posted 08/20/2011, comment (1)|
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