Tag: bipolar disorder
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New Mental Health Information Page
Just added a new page to my site, entitled Mental Health Information, which lists links to NAMI & NIMH pages concerning major mental health conditions. So, now you can easily find information on all the major mental health conditions, not just bipolar disorder, but I will continue to blog primarily about my own experience living…
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I’m Sick & Had to Cancel
I am SO disappointed. Woke up this morning with gastroenteritis. Not able to go on my trip to the San Franciscod Bay Area. Not able to be interviewed for Rebecca Gitenstein’s study on mothers with bipolar disorder. Not able to meet up with my old friends from high school. Not able to meet my friend and…
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Bay Area Here I Come!
This weekend I’m going up to the San Francisco Bay Area so that Rebecca Gitenstein can interview me at The Wright Institute for her doctoral study on mothers with bipolar disorder. What do you know – I’m a mother and I have bipolar disorder. PLUS – The Wright Institute is in Berkeley. Seeing Rebecca in person gives me…
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Bipolar Network News
Today I quote the fabulous Bipolar Network News, 6th issue, 2014. The Bipolar Network News keeps track of the latest research on bipolar disorder and its treatment and summarizes it for you. How awesome is that?! I highly recommend visiting their website and signing up for their newsletter. Thank you, Bipolar Network News! In this issue Positive Traits in Bipolar…
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Thank You, Followers
Thank you to all of my followers in 2014. Thank you especially to my most active commenters in 2014: Dyane Leshin Harwood of Birth of a New Brain | Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder made 169 comments Ellen Stockdale Wolfe of Moonside | Triumph of Spirit in Love, Nature & Art at StockdaleWolfe.com made 88 comments Glenn Archibald of Glenn2point0 | Opinions on…
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Brain is a Brain
When I was visiting with my father to celebrate Thanksgiving, he asked me why what he suffers – dementia, a memory disorder, a neurological disorder – is any different than what I have – bipolar disorder, a mental illness, a psychiatric disorder? Why these distinctions? Why is stigma attached to one and not another? Why do so many…
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Postpartum Management of Bipolar Disorder
This morning I participated in a webinar sponsored by The International Society for Bipolar Disorders entitled, Postpartum Management of Bipolar Disorder: Challenges and Opportunities, led by Dr. Verinder Sharma. Bipolar disorder is commonly misdiagnosed as major depressive disorder, just as postpartum bipolar disorder is misdiagnosed as postpartum depressive disorder. Misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder has serious consequences.…