by Joe | Aug 24, 2009 | Bipolar Books
I recently received an email message from the translator who’s doing the Slovene translation of Bipolar Disorder For Dummies. Following is the letter (included here with permission). Hello, I’m currently finishing the Slovene (ours is a tiny country in...
by Joe | Aug 12, 2009 | Marriage, Relationships
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) has a NAMI’s Family-to-Family Program – a free, 12-week course for family caregivers of individuals with severe mental illnesses. Several years ago, when I had my first encounter with bipolar disorder in my family, I...
by Joe | May 27, 2009 | Relationships, Sleep, Stories
Last spring, my wife ended up in the hospital with a rip roaring manic episode, so this year, we were on high alert. A couple weeks ago, she noticed herself having trouble sleeping, one of our first early warning signs, so she did the right thing and called her...
by Joe | May 11, 2009 | Hospitalization, Movies, Opinions, Relationships
Contains spoilers, so if you haven’t seen The Soloist yet, hold off on reading this. I saw the movie The Soloist this weekend starring Robert Downey Junior as Los Angeles Times reporter Steve Lopez and Jamie Foxx as Nathaniel Ayers, a musically talented homeless...
by Joe | Dec 30, 2008 | Advocacy, Opinions, Stigma
When we wrote Bipolar Disorder for Dummies, we wanted to avoid ruffling any feathers, despite the fact that the “Dummies” series encourages the use of “irreverent humor.” In the spirit of remaining sensitive to our readers, we chose to refer to people with bipolar...
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