Insight What can we learn from Lincoln?
Understanding Our very lives depend on how well we manage stress.
Experience Learning to appreciate the positive.
Intelligent Choices What to do if your second antidepressant fails.
Knowledge is Necessity. Recovery starts with knowledge. I can't emphasize this enough.
My name is John McManamy. I am an award-winning mental health journalist and author. I have dedicated the last 11 years of my life to researching and writing on depression and bipolar disorder for people like yourself - patients and loved ones. I know where you are coming from. I am also a patient, as well as a loved one.
Here, you will find articles that will give you greater insight into your illness and behaviors and help you make your own choices in your treatment and recovery. Thanks for stopping by. Jump in wherever you like ...
Living Well with Depression and Bipolar Disorder (HarperCollins, 2006)
"This book belongs in the hands of every person who has suffered from depression or bipolar disorder, and every mental health professional who treats them." - Pete Early, author, "Crazy."
Now that you're familiar with the DSM-IV, forget everything you've read.
A leading anthropologist explains the birds and the bees.
We're depressed way more than we are manic. Now if psychiatry only knew how to treat us.
Mindfulness - The Ultimate Mood Stabilizer
What is arguably the most effective recovery tool requires a highly disciplined mind.
Dopamine - Serotonin's Secret Weapon
A smart dopamine med may do wonders for your depression or bipolar or mental acuity. The problem is one doesn't exist.
No, it's not normal kid behavior.
An innovative researcher discovers that patients know best.
John McManamy talks about his new blog. (Click here to visit the blog.)
Knowledge is Necessity
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Mood 25 articles on what we need to know about feeling bad, good, or too good for our own good.
Behavior 11 articles on what is wrong with us - and right - what holds us back and makes us shine.
Treatment 24 articles on smart meds strategies, talking therapies, supplements, and ECT.
Recovery 14 articles on leading a disciplined life in order to acheive a satisfying life.
Science 14 articles on what makes us tick - or tock. Featuring your favorite neurons.
Issues 12 articles on things we can change - and need to accept.
Famous 20 articles on your favorites, from Marilyn to Van Gogh to - uh - Hitler.
Stories 16 articles from people like us, each a masterpiece, bearing eloquent witness.
Populations 13 articles on age, gender, income, family, ethnicity, work, school.
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(HarperCollins, 2006)
"This book belongs in the hands of every person who has suffered from depression or bipolar disorder, and every mental health professional who treats them." - Pete Early, author, "Crazy."
Don't just sit there. Build yourself a tree..
Don't be fooled. There's always a somewhere.
Nature heals. So do our brains.
No koalas were harmed making this movie.
Mindfulness: The Ultimate Mood Stabilizer
The Buddha was on to something ...
Do people with bipolar cycle in and out of time? Call me bichronic.
