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...
by Candida Fink, MD | Nov 12, 2008 | Children, Opinions
In “Bipolar Disorder Overdiagnosed in Children?” I expressed my concerns about the 40-fold increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children between 1994 and 2003 – climbing from 20,000 cases in 1994 to 800,000 cases in 2003. Based on my research and...
by Joe | Oct 15, 2008 | Career, Disability, Opinions, Social Security
We’re currently working on a post about bipolar work-related issues. In the meantime, I’d like to gather input from consumers, attorneys, occupational therapists, and others who’ve dealt with these issues or counseled others on how to deal with them....
by Joe | Jul 12, 2008 | In the News, Opinions
By Joe The Wednesday, July 9 edition of the Billerica Minuteman carried the story “Marzilli Indicted,” about Massachusetts State Sen. Jim Marzilli, D-Arlington who “was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on charges stemming from a day he spent in...
by Cecie | Jun 26, 2008 | Hospitalization, Opinions
By Guest Blogger, Cecie Kraynak In the course of my most recent hospitalizations, my husband, Joe, and I have tossed around the idea of creating our own mental healthcare resort or at least implementing a 5-star-rating system for existing facilities. The first place I...
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