This week is Mental Illness Awareness Week. Okay, let’s get aware. Following is a random traverse through history:
790,000 BC, give or take a few years - Discovery of fire. Anyone crazy enough to take a burning tree into their cave and find a practical application had to have been dealing with bipolar. So, you nonbipolars out there, listen up: We give you the gift of civilization, and how do you thank us? That’s right. You marginalize us. (By the way, sorry we couldn’t get fire to you...
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This morning, on my way to Peet's for a decaf iced mocha, I saw two young women taking pictures of what at first glance might look like two... Read more »
Is grief a mental illness? Yes, according to proposed revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), if... Read more »
Hi everybody We are doing something a little different today. One of our members, Donna-1, has written to me to ask that I attempt to... Read more »
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