This is the third installment in our discussion on how problems in thinking may represent our major challenge in dealing with bipolar, rather than our moods. I was first tipped off to this in 2001 when I came across a lengthy review article in the journal Bipolar Disorders authored by Carrie Bearden, now at UCLA. Significantly, I ran into Dr Bearden in 2007 at a research conference on schizophrenia. Could there be an overlap between bipolar and schizophrenia? Hold that thought.

In 2004, I was...