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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.…

Since today is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, I wanted to post his prayer, one of my very favorites. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury,pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is…

As of today Britney Spears loses her kids according to the L.A. County Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon. My reaction is probably likes yours: Part of me says, “Well I sure as hell hope this wakes her up to her path of self-destruction, because if this isn’t hitting bottom, I don’t know what is!” And…

A month ago, the Washington Post ran an excellent article by Maia Szalavitz entited, “So, What Made Me an Addict? Experts Debate Whether Disease or Defect Is to Blame.” This question is so crucial to how we treat persons suffering from both addiction and mental disorders, and especially how we deal with those with dual-diagnoses.…

Back in May, Time magazine did a fascinating cover story on the new brain research helping us to understand how so many of us get hooked to alcohol, drugs, gambling, and so on. By zeroing in the cause, brain experts are talking about a cure. To read “The Science of Addiction” click here. Some of…

When Mike Leach and I compiled our book “I Like Being Catholic,” he listed ten reasons why a person should raise her kids Catholic. One was so that, as teenagers, the kids would have something to reject.When Katherine and David head off to college, they may become atheists. Especially if they go back and read…

I came across this excerpt from John Henry Cardinal Newman just as I was thinking about why I hang onto my religion even in its disappointing moments. A religious mind is ever marveling, and irrelgious men laugh and scoff at it because it marvels. A religious mind is ever looking out of itself, is ever…
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