Yesterday, after a deliberate sabbatical, I put out my first Newsletter of the year. The theme was "treating bipolar depression."  To briefly recap:

In 2001, at the Fifth International Conference on Bipolar Disorder, Robert Post MD, then of the NIMH, surprised his audience by revealing study findings that showed bipolar patients are depressed three times more often than they are manic or hypomanic.

At the time, despite little or no evidence to support it, few clinicians questioned the standard...