I'm pleased to have interviewed Sandra Yuen MacKay who recently published a memoir about her life with schizoaffective.
CB: Tell us a little about your story: your life with schizophrenia, when you were diagnosed, the struggle you went through all these years.
SYM: At fourteen, I was very shy and timid. I began to hear voices and believed students from school and my parents were plotting against me. Instead of asking for help, I withdrew more into myself. I was diagnosed at...
What I miss most about trimming back my public speaking to almost nothing is what I learn from interacting with my audience.Last week, at a... Read more »
A few weeks ago, in the Ask feature here at BipolarConnect, Nathan wrote:"Is bipolar the same as schizophrenia? I know a person who has... Read more »
An interview with Meredith Small, author of The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness (Joseph Henry Press,... Read more »
Schizophrenic mothers and fathers are twice as likely to have a child diagnosed with autism. These are the findings from a study... Read more »
The release of the new movie "The Soloist" this week tells the story of Nathaniel Ayers, a promising string bass player whose musical training at the... Read more »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug Saphris (asenapine) to treat adults with either schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder. Read more »
A new study has found that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BPD) have a shared genetic "signature" that may explain why the conditions have... Read more »
Researchers in three studies have found a common genetic cause behind schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, two mental health conditions that were... Read more »
British scientists are reporting that they have found how the toxoplasmosis parasite may trigger the development of schizophrenia and other bipolar... Read more »
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