Jan 4, 2022 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum. My best friends and my family know about my bipolar brain, but being bipolar II is not something that usually comes up in cocktail conversation. I fret...
Dec 24, 2021 | Mental Health, News
I’ve been keeping busy these days trying to get the word out about bipolar depression. Check out some of these podcasts and share with your friends. Together we can: Save Lives. End the Stigma. Reduce Suffering. Resilient Stories with Dr. Tommy Watson Book Place...
Dec 23, 2021 | Covid, Mental Health, News
The New York Times recently reported that the U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, “warned that young people are facing ‘devastating’ mental health effects as a result of the challenges experienced by their generation, including the coronavirus pandemic.” As one...
Dec 23, 2021 | Covid, Mental Health, Shadow Work, Vaccination
We are two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, and while it is hard not to think of it as a plague, its serious nature has been affecting our society. I’ve come to think about covid and its variants as outlaws from nature. There have been hundreds of thousands of...
Dec 15, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum. I’m advocating that bipolar depression II is misnamed, misunderstood and misdiagnosed when we refer to it as a “mental illness.” If I had a knife in my...
Nov 29, 2021 | Mental Health
Photo credit: Bipolar II Disorder: Recognition, Understanding, and Treatment, by Ed. Swartz, Holly A.Paperback The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum. We drive back to Massachusetts from Florida...
Nov 23, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum. Jim Head was the anti-professor—young, cool, charismatic and infamous on campus. In 1981, when I took his course “Earth, Moon and Mars” (we called it,...
Nov 18, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum. How can a marriage survive when one partner loses her sanity, her sexuality, her capacity to mother, to work, to love and support her lover, to laugh,...
Nov 15, 2021 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum. I’m writing this partly because it’s healing for me to tell my story and partly because I wish I had found a guide like this, written from the inside, when...
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