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We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.
An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young... →
Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My... →
I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and... →
It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called... →
It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast... →
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on college campuses is exactly... →
Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me... →
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and... →
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of... →
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can... →
When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief... →