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I have been preaching for years now that I believe most people who are alcoholics began drinking (or drugging) to help kill the pain of a mood disorder. For whatever reason until today I had not known that there was empirical scientific data backing this notion up. Nobody really knows if you can be an alcoholic first, and then that triggers a long-term depressive episode, or visa versa. If you have an alcohol or drug … Read More . . . → Read More: Gene Linked to Both Alcoholism and Depression
I have five rules I have developed over the years that help keep my depression at bay. If I break any one of the rules, I’m at risk of having a depressive episode — and for me there is nothing at all in life that is worse than one of these episodes or even compares to how low these put me on the mood scale. And, they have seemingly gotten deeper and more painful if … Read More . . . → Read More: Five Ways I Deal with Depression 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 . . . → Read More: Bipolar Disorder and Depression – Seek help as soon as you have any of these symptoms 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 . . . → Read More: “Rag” Magazines vs. Science: Are the Rat Population Studies True? I just watched a 12 minute motivational speech by a guy named Shawn Achors (and I usually can not bear those speeches a la Tony Robbins where people have been promised their whole miserable life can be fixed in 3 hours) but this guy was different. He posits that our society is basically broken because of the way we are raised to always compete and advance. Specifically he made up an example by saying what … Read More . . . → Read More: Have You Found That Maybe You Aren’t As Happy in Life as You Thought You Should Be? I read this in an advertised Blogupp entry that started out as follows: Bi Polar Disorder Written by: Baby J on May 4, 2010.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
. . . → Read More: Are all Bipolar people truly crazy “whack-jobs”? The answer is a definite “No – not Bipolar 2′s, Anyhow”
I am lucky enough to have a best friend from childhood — let’s call him Steve — who is also . . . → Read More: Best Way to Beat Bipolar Illness — Don’t Try and Do It Alone. 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 . . . → Read More: The unseen link between depression, anxiety and addiction. BACKGROUND 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. I could cite further facts, … Read More . . . → Read More: Depression creeps up on you. If you are not having fun – don’t let time fly by! …if they bought into the notion below. I am developing sites to help people find good halfway houses and sober livings if they are coming out of treatment. On the home page I found myself writing the following paragraph, which sums up what I am about. For people who can’t toil through my longer stories in this blog — here it is in a nutshell, off the site The Halfway House Guide. I am a … Read More . . . → Read More: Dual Diagnosis — Most alcoholics and addicts could come close to “finding a cure” |
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