Are all Bipolar people “whack-jobs”?

I read this in an advertised Blogupp entry that started out as follows:

Bi Polar Disorder Written by: Baby J on May 4, 2010.

One day you wake up and everything is perfectly normal. You wake your kids, make breakfast and kiss your husband good day. All it takes is one incident. Something you’d never expect, yet the perfect trigger. In my case it was a liar. That

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment – How to Find the “Right” Center

The key to long term success in recovery is beginning with a solid treatment program. It is critical that you develop a solid foundation from which you can start working to get better, and proper treatment is the only way to build that foundation. Simply detoxing to break the addiction cycle cannot substitute for a longer term treatment plan, and by just detoxing and then installing yourself in a sober living you are… Read More

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Bipolar Disorder and Depression – Seek help as soon as you have any of these symptoms

Bipolar Disorder tops the list in terms of the number of diagnoses made each year by doctors, mainly because most depression today is diagnosed as bipolar depression.  Regardless of how prevalent these two diagnoses are individually ( The national Institute of Medical health estimates depression alone affects 20,000,000 Americans every year), there are stigmas attached to these disorders. Don’t allow a stigma to stop you from seeing the reality of the disorder — you or… Read More

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A Brilliant Writer Describes Depression in Such a Way it is a “Must Read”.

I just read several of the most inspiring posts by another writer yet since having been introduced to this whole blogging thing. The blog is called “Drunk in Cardiff”, authored by “The Drinker”, and subtitled “The long walk to recovery from alcoholism and depression”. Just the subtitle makes one who has been through this whole journey want to jump on his work, I believe. So at the risk of losing the 3 people who may… Read More

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“Rag” Magazines vs. Science: Are the Rat Population Studies True?

One need only look at the racks stuffed full of “rag magazines” at the head of most market checkout lanes to know they are there because they sell. They sell the surprise and shock of a headline that announces somebody who is or was “on top” of their game has shaved all their hair off, married a mooch, or gotten busted for a whole bunch of drugs that were discovered when their car was searched… Read More

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The unseen link between depression, anxiety and addiction.

Just as a “normal person” — if there is such a person — might have come home after work that day and said “Honey, I just had a rough day”, or told a buddy that Friday “Man, I had a rough week”, there was a day I was saying to whomever I could find who would listen, albeit tongue in cheek, “Man, I’ve had a rough eight years”. But I meant it. Still hospitalized, I… Read More

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Adoption and My First Anxiety Attack

My response to a group invitation; Nov., 2009

My name is Tom Rees and I have been invited to introduce myself to the group. All of life’s other “stuff” you can find on my Linked page; I joined you all because I was adopted at birth and thought it would be interesting to share with other adoptees or people in the field.

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