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.
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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 [...]
Bipolar is “special” among mental illnesses in that it has something called “The Manic Episode.” People ranging from Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) to Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) have spoken publicly about theirs.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Before discussing the often abstract diagnosis we call bipolar, we have to look at diagnosis and what is required. It is one of our nation’s most misunderstood mental health problems. 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 [...]
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