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This message of peace came at a perfect time for me because (SURPRISE!) I’m feeling a tad insecure as of late. Not that I’m feeling any more insecure than usual. Well, yes I am, because I got to taste what it felt like to be normal, not insecure, when I was manic a week ago…

Thanks to the blog “We Must Not Think Too Much,” I found the following Baltimore Examiner article by Karl B. Hill about the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorder Symposium that I attended last Tuesday. Again, how thrilling it was for me to me at an event where so many prestigious names and prominent people could come…

? Yesterday USA Today’s Marilyn Elias wrote an interesting piece about the status of college campuses today with regard to mental illness awareness this first anniversary of the Virginia Tech tragedy. Here are some interesting points of her article: 1. About 20 percent of colleges had assessment teams before the Virginia Tech murders, says Keith…

Back in September I participated in a blogger conference call sponsored by Revolution Health with Dr. Val Jone, Dr. Mark Smaller, and Ross Szabo about depression and mental illness among college students today. To listen to a podcast of the call go back to my blog post by clicking here. Ross Szabo is the Director…

A year ago, at the time of the Virginia Tech massacre, I wrote a post about where illness ends and evil begins. The killings raised all kinds of questions for me: theological and philosophical ones along side scientific ones. Here are some excerpts from that piece, which you can get to by clicking here. Was…

I spent this morning in Washington DC among all the other journalists covering the pope’s visit. My interview on Sirius Radio, the Catholic channel, got pretty heated with the listeners who called in, after I spilled the beans about my disagreeing with the whole birth control thing.Here’s the thing: my recovery from bipolar disorder, and…

There have been many interesting articles on the state of the American Catholic Church, but I found this essay by Dan Barry in the New York Times especially charming and intriguing, probably because I agree with so much of it. Get to the article by clicking here. Following are some sound bites. Let me say…

April 15 is a symbolic day for me because it was on this afternoon three years ago, I met Ann, my guardian angel on an Amtrak ride from New York to Baltimore. What a perfect day, then, to attend the Mood Disorders Research/Education Symposium hosted by Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Just…

My absolute favorite essay on depression is a piece Kay Redfield Jamison wrote for NPR’s “This I Believe” collection of testimonies. It’s about learning to love our jagged edges. I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense…

In a recent medical newsletter, I came across this article on Project GenRED, a large NIH-sponsored effort to identify genes for recurring major depressive disease, which “operates on the premise that genes for early-striking disease are probably more obvious than later types.” This is all great news for me and many of you, because chronic…
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