Following is the third segment of my interview with Dr. Ken Duckworth, the medical director of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), that I was afforded through a blogger call hosted by Revolution Health. After this segment, I have just one more part (Part 4), which I will publish next Friday. Then we…

I found the following information about the STEP-BD study (to which Dr. Duckworth refers in my interview above) on the psychosocial treatment of bipolar disorder at the NAMI website. To get to the original source and learn even more about the trial, click here. If you don’t have time to read the entire article, skip…

As a recovering alcoholic with bipolar disorder, I’m always looking for information on how the two are related, which illness is responsible for what behavior, and how their treatments might collaborate or clash. One of the best overviews I’ve read on the relationships between addiction and mental illness is written by J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr.…

Back in January, when we make New Year’s resolutions to clean up our act, I read this article in the Washington Post by Anita Huslin about understanding some of our bad habits. And then I filed it with the rest of my clutter, something I’ve been trying to get a handle on since, oh, grade-school.…

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