Mad Pride :: Is Society Ready?
While the stigmas are far too great still in a world that is obsessed with more important things like Angelina Jolie’s lipstick, it is growing closer to an era when the mentally ill geniuses of our world can be brave enough to out themselves and help erase the stigma.
Celebrity Psychings – Taking on Mental Health Stigmas
Alicia Sparks, the author of Celebrity Psychings, seems to have a true vision to erase the stigma of mental illness. And that is something I am definitely on board with.
Lithium and Silent Professionals
When we go to the doctor or hire a lawyer or take a college course, we expect the people we encounter to be professionals. As such, we assume they don’t have any mental illnesses … that is, many people assume that. The truth is that many people in the professional world are doing their jobs [...]
Symptoms of a Bipolar Manic Episode
I was discussing this series with my wife and she suggested I do a post on what spouses/loved ones should look for as symptoms of bipolar disorder. After all, this is a mental illness so the person suffering it usually will not notice the symptoms on their own. Here are some symptoms of a bipolar [...]
Broken Mood Thermostat of Bipolar Disorder
My hope in this series is to produce a paradigm shift in people’s attitude toward bipolar. Remember when you were a kid and your parents said you were going somewhere really special? Depending on your age, it could have been grandmother’s house or a flight to a 3 day stay at Disneyland. Remember feeling your [...]
Beautiful Dragon Called Bipolar
I once read that the Chinese dragon we see in parades and such is an emblem of an enemy to defeat. By making ones enemy beautiful, it is thought that one can better defeat him. Depression is well known to have risen in diagnosis in past decades. Other mental illnesses remain in the shadows. For [...]
Tiger of Bipolar by the Tail
Before discussing the abstract art that we call bipolar, we have to look at diagnosis and what is required. It seems like more and more news stories about rapists, murderers, garden variety psychopaths, and the like contain a tag at the end of something like:
“This story is truly a tragedy, such and such was being [...]
