I found the following “Humor-Help Tool Bag” at the website www.learnwell.org, which you can get to by clicking here. As the paragraph suggests, sometimes you have to help the humor along. Most healing humor arises spontaneously out of situations. But at times it is helpful to have on hand things that are intrinsically funny. Some…

I read with interest Newsweek’s cover story, “Growing Up Bipolar,” for three reasons: 1) Ever since my former therapist handed me my adolescent journals, I’ve been coming to realize that I may have been bipolar as a kid; 2) I just attended the Johns Hopkins Annual Mood Disorders Research and Education Symposium, where Dr. John…

Click here to get some perspective on what it’s like to raise a bipolar boy. Man oh man, I guess we all have our problems, but this just put mine into perspective. To read more Beyond Blue, go to www.beliefnet.com/beyondblue, and to get to Group Beyond Blue, a support group at Beliefnet Community, click here.

I’m so used to being the interviewer for my series “How Do You Move Beyond Blue?” that I thought it might be a refreshing change to let someone grill me. I had the honor of being interviewed by Dr. Val Jones, the chief medical director of Revolution Health earlier this week. Dr. Val writes her…

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