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Beyond Blue

Alas, if you still have more time on your hands after you’ve read all the blogs on my top 10 list and all the ones on my blog roll, you can check out the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs picked recently (for the year 2008) by Psych Central. Happy reading!

Some of you remember my trip to New York City this summer when I was experiencing bad symptoms, but went anyway. One of the many reasons for the trip was an interview with “America” magazine, a reputable Catholic publication. They taped a podcast with me that they just published on their site. Here’s the link…

On Mindful Monday, my readers and I practice the art of pausing, TRYING to be still, or considering, ever so briefly, the big picture. We’re hoping this soul time will provide enough peace of mind to get us through the week! If I had to name two things from my childhood that have helped me…

In case you’re thinking you’re not up for M. Scott Peck’s definition of discipline, here’s a consoling quote I pulled from Richard Foster’s book, “Celebration of Discipline“: When we despair of gaining inner transformation through human powers of will and determination, we are open to a wonderful new realization: inner righteousness is a gift from…

On Fridays I will address a question related to depression and find the answer from an expert. If you have a question you want answered, please ask it on the combox of this post, and I’ll try my best to do some research and feature it in an upcoming Friday post. I think most of…

Thanks to Beliefnet’s Lilit Marcus for finding this story about a guy with bipolar disorder getting $80,000 from his company on discrimination charges. Read the entire article on Canada.com by clicking here. I’ve excerpted from it below. An $80,000 judgment against an Ottawa company that dismissed a man with bipolar disorder has been upheld by…

One of the most hurtful comments made to me during the worst of my depression was this: “You must not want to get better.” I’m having a hard time forgiving the person who said that, even as I know she didn’t intend to be spiteful or mean. She’s just plain ignorant regarding mental health issues.…

One of the many reasons I very much respect my doctor, Milena Hruby Smith, is that she is extremely modest and humble. And while some patients are reassured by a doctor who delivers his assessment in an unequivocal, confident style that says “there is no other way,” I am refreshed by a psychiatrist is absolutely…

If you can’t eat the Halloween candy that is stored in cute pumpkin buckets on the top of your refrigerator begging to be consumed, then what can you eat?  Plenty of stuff! says Janice Taylor, Beliefnet’s Our Lady of Weight Loss blogger. Here is a gallery of her favorite 10 recipes for this time of…

One of the better articles I’ve read about surviving winter is found at BustedHalo.com. Writer Nora Bradbury-Haehl penned a beautiful piece about her love-hate relationship with the cold months. As a spouse of a depressive, she gets it. She really gets it. I’ve excerpted below the first three paragraphs of her piece, which you can…
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