Next To Normal: A Broadway Play About Mental Illness

Taken from the  chron.com   which is located   HERE.   “Next to Normal” tackles the thorniest topic imaginable for a musical – mental illness – and treats its somber theme with such honesty, artistry and originality that it makes exhilarating theater. The recent Broadway hit, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for drama and three Tony Awards, [...]

Book Review: The Guardians — An Elegy

  Taken from the Huff Post  which is located    HERE. Lloyd I. Sederer, MD Medical director, New York State Office of Mental Health Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.   Harris Wulfson died July 23, 2008. He had walked for some 10 hours from midtown in New York [...]

Together, Family Deals With Daughter’s Bipolar Disorder

Taken from the Post Star  which is located   HERE. Eva Gregorek grew up in an old house just up the hill from Route 40, deep in the farm country of southern Washington County. She got married and moved out and then her parents moved out, too, leaving the house empty for a time. When she [...]

Kim Novak Reveals She Is Bipolar

Taken from  the L.A. Times   which is located   HERE. Actress Kim Novak told an audience at the TCM Classic Film Festival Friday that she has bipolar disorder, and sometimes regrets her decision to leave Hollywood in the late 1960s at the height of her fame. The star of such films as “Vertigo,” “Pal Joey” and [...]

Treatment Dropout Rates High In People With Bipolar Disorder

Taken from  Mental Wellness Today which is located   HERE. Results from a new study show that approximately one-third of bipolar disorder patients go against the advice of their doctors and stop taking medication within a year of starting treatment. Kyooseob Ha, MD, and his team from the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital in Seongnam, Republic [...]

Margaret Trudeau: No Regrets About Having Bipolar Disorder, She Says In Vancouver Interview

Taken from the Vancouver Sun which is located   HERE. Margaret Trudeau has no regrets about having bipolar disorder. Although it’s led to multiple hospitalizations and strained relationships, she says it’s also been a boon to her life journey. In a radio show interview which airs March 12th (part one) and 19th (part two), Trudeau will discuss the effects – good and bad – [...]

Bipolar Disorder: What You Need To Know

Taken from Mental Health America  which is located   HERE. What is Bipolar Disorder? Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is an illness involving one or more episodes of serious mania and depression. The illness causes a person’s mood to swing from excessively “high” and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, with periods of a normal [...]

The Unreal World: ‘Homeland’ And Bipolar Disorder

  Taken from the Los Angeles Times which is located   HERE. The premise Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) returns as a hero to the U.S. after spending eight years as a prisoner of war in Afghanistan. Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) is a mentally unstable CIA officer who is convinced that Brody is an agent of [...]

Bipolar Disorder Symptoms

Disbelief and acceptance: A bipolar disorder diagnosis No one likes to be defined by an illness. Because the symptoms of bipolar disorder are expressed as moods, feelings, and actions, understanding what is the illness and what is part of your personality can be confusing. That can sometimes make it hard to accept a diagnosis of [...]

The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year?

I have “known” Randall Slack and his daughter for several years.  Today we can know people via the phone and internet without having met.  Randall has been a Pastor and served God faithfully. You’re about to meet Rachel.  She was a big reason I began this blog as I used to read her blog and [...]