The following excerpt is from someone who is evidently Bipolar1 (more severe than Bipolar 2) and she is on drugs, as most people with mental disorders can be. People with disorders as you will see, however, can be more affected by drugs than a “normal” person on drugs. She writes “One … Read More
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
Depression affects over 20 million people per year, or over 8% of the U.S. (defined as having at least 1 major depressive episode in the past year.) That is an unbelievable statistic in terms of it being almost 1 in 10 people. Out of the 44 million people a year affected by some mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, almost half the events involved depression.
The famous inspirational business writer Napoleon Hill wrote 16 lessons about how to succeed in business. One of them focused on how you THINK as a person. He was so convinced you could “think” yourself to any degree of success he wrote a second book called “Think and Grow Rich”.
If somebody wrote a book about addicts and how they think, the title might be something depressing like “Think and You Will Discover You Have … Read More
Maj. Gen. Mark Graham speaks openly about mental health and his “family” of men and women in service. It is a start, but hardly enough to reverse what is really happening.
of men and women in (NOTE: Please read the articles at the end of this entry)
The other day on the radio I heard some shocking statistics about depression and suicide as it relates to the military. Personally, I don’t think there could be … Read More
A very common heart problem is called an “arrhythmia” — in fact I am fairly sure I read somewhere that upwards of 15% of people or more experience heart arrhythmia at some point in their life. “Cardiac arrhythmia” is a term that encompasses a whole bunch of different conditions that can occur when the electric circuitry of the heart muscle is thrown out of whack and results in one’s heart beat becoming too fast or … Read More
You read this headline right. Your brain makes actual opiates that are almost identical to the pills and synthetic opiates made by the drug manufacturers. The syndrome in your brain — if you are LACKING in these natural opiates, would then produce a significant, prolonged, stubborn, unbroken depression that you’d get pretty tired of fast.It is called endogenous opioid deficiency. I have just finished reading about 100 posts from … Read More
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
