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Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.
Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety... →
Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy.... →
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression... →
Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles... →
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.