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I was troubled by yesterday’s article in the New York Times about the soar in bipolar diagnoses in young people. Not because I don’t believe it. But because I want to understand it: how the diagnosis of bipolar could increase from 20,000 kids in 1994 to 800,000 in 2003, the latter figure being about one…

“Why can’t I just vent to a friend?” I’ve asked my doctor on numerous occassions, feeling too tired or too poor to go back to therapy. I wish it was the same: counseling and coffee. But it’s not. There is a healing power in psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral theory that you can’t match by grabbing a…

In a New York Times interview, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the chairman of the psychiatry department at Olean General Hospital in Olean, N.Y,, and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Buffalo, discusses severeal pertinent questions that we’ve talked about here on Beyond Blue: weight gain with meds, postpartum depression, depression in menopause and…

My blogging buddy, James Bishop, over at “Finding Optimism,” wrote an excellent post entitled “12 Ways to Care for a Depressed Person.” I’ll give you the first three, and then go over there yourself to get the others. It’s worth it. The person with depression usually can’t see a way forward. They may fervently believe…
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