Linda Logan married her high school sweetheart. She is a mother of 3 children, a Ph.D. in geography, a former co-teacher at M.I.T. And she suffers from bipolar disorder–badly. It has ravaged her life. But she has come back to talk about it in a fresh and inspiring way–and to ask the question: In all […]
Everybody loves a bargain, and, in honor of World Mental Health Day October 10, What’sMyM3, a highly rated mental health app, is cutting its price by a third to the bargain basement cost of $0.99. If you check out the app on the iPhone you’ll find the description currently includes this little ad-let: “October is Mental […]
We know one thing for sure that’s typical for the atypical (or second generation) antipsychotics. They’ve caught on like a house on fire. The atypicals are the top-selling class of drugs today, with revenues in 2010 of about $14.6 billion and $18.2 billion in 2011. They have even surpassed the blockbuster statins that treat high cholesterol (think Lipitor) and […]
Next week is Mental Illness Awareness Week. Established by Congress in 1990 thanks to efforts by the tireless National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), it occurs every year during the first week of October to raise awareness about mental illness. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated 26.2% of adult Americans (that’s […]
Let’s say you wanted to find a biological indication of your bipolar disorder, or your husband’s, or your child’s. You’d have good reason for looking for one. Biological markers could ,in theory, clarify the diagnosis (no more, ‘she’s just a drug abuser,’ or ‘maybe he’s just got an irregular depression’), might actually find out what phase […]
The UK-based Mind: For Better Mental Health is a mental health charity whose mission is to be there “to make sure anyone with a mental health problem has somewhere to turn for advice and support.” They have an information and advice section, helpline numbers to call, ideas of what to do if you’re in crisis, information on […]
I blithely wrote a post for my blogging day job on the atypical antipsychotics, cleverly (or so I thought at the time, at least) entitling it “The Atypical History of Atypical Antipsychotics,” and I covered what I considered the big guns among the atypicals: Clorazil, Zyprexa, Risperdal, Seroquel, Geodon, and Abilify. Little did I know […]
Doesn’t it start to seem like the Greeks invented just about everything? Of course they invented geometry, for which some are not completely grateful, philosophy–which has provided a haven for many rudderless college students–and just imagine a wold without parchment. Oh–and who could forget the catapult? For crying out loud, they invented the Olympics, and […]
Sometimes it’s just hard to know what to make of statistics. For example, according to The Humor Blog, 0.3% of all accidents in Canada involve a moose and only 30% of people can flare their nostrils, and according to another Crazy Statistics post more than ten people a year are killed by vending machines. Just […]
A friend attended a well-known residential program for bipolar disorder, and what was one of the therapeutic offerings, bless my English-major heart, but a poetry group? So I got to thinking. . . I love poetry [I didn't have to think hard for that]–is it possible it has medicinal powers? [I have of course begun a […]
After running a Google Search on ‘bipolar disorder’ with the date, as I often do to catch up with the latest on the topic, I came to the conclusion that all bipolar disorder (BD) research and findings have taken a holiday, and it is all Jesse Jackson, Jr., all the time. The Wall Street Journal […]
“A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.” ~ Everett Dirksen, Congressman What Senator Dirksen knew about government spending is these days being applied to drug company fines. And it seems these penalties are, indeed, finally adding up to some ‘real money.’ 2012 saw three of the biggest […]
April 27, 2013 by rfinkel
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