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Making a Map
I know I have been talking about this a lot lately, but honestly I am a little surprised at how much of a difference creating a sort of road map for my symptoms and episodes has been making for me. It...
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Mood Charting – The Color-Band Mood Chart
As most of you who have been reading this blog for a while know (and for those of you who are new comers, I expect that makes this an introduction) I am probably more than a little bit obsessed with my...
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A Diagnostic Swamp – Defeated
The question of my diagnosis (at least, my particular bipolar diagnosis) has been something that has been under discussion for a long time. A lot of what I wrote in the early stages of this blog was...
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A Live/Work Balancing Act
I’ve been very lucky, to some degree, with this new job because even though it is full time, there is an element of flexibility to it. The hours are not exactly set, which means on a day like one I had...
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“Bipolar Disorder” or Typical Human Behavior?
I’ve been seeing a recurring theme lately. I told someone I’ve known for a while (but who has somehow escaped the knowledge of what has really gone down the last year or two) that I have bipolar...
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When the Doctor is Away
Many people I know who experience symptoms of mental illness have partnered up with a therapist, psychiatrist, prescribing nurse, or general doctor to aid in their care. These kinds of relationships...
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Celebrities; Coming Out or Outed?
Lately, the influx of news on celebrities with bipolar disorder has been exploding. Doing a google news search of the word “bipolar” leads to sloughs of articles like this one claiming to have news on...
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Study Finds Bipolar Disorder Prevalent in Panic Disorder Patients
This morning’s sweep of the internet turned up a new study by the University of Tokyo, Japan suggesting bipolar disorder is common among Japanese patients who were being treated for panic disorder....
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DSM-V Preliminarily Approved by Psychiatric Association
So, some pretty big news about the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (or simply “DSM” -this will be version 5). On Saturday it was announced that the American...
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Brain Scans Might Identify Bipolar in Youth
Australian researchers were recently using MRI to view the brain activity of young people who were shown pictures of faces with a variety of expressions on them. “We found that the young people who had...
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SSDI Prep – A Doctor’s Testimony
I got a call from my SSDI lawyer this week. Basically he wants to add the testimonies of at least one doctor to my case files, preferably the psychiatrist I’m currently seeing, if not another as well....
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