A lot of psychiatric information is drawn out and a bit too clinical/technical. Well, here’s a site that describes it in layman’s terms. The way to spread the knowledge is to do so in ways everyone can (hopefully) understand. Anyone who doesn’t yet know the ins and outs of the brutal disorder should check it […]

Paxil is an antidepressant derived from the drug group SSRIs or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. The drug works by affecting chemical levels in the brain which may become unbalanced. Generically known as paroxetine, this antidepressant is sold as Paxil, Pexeva, and Paxil CR.
Paxil treatment for social anxiety disorders and other anxiety-related conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder, […]

There are hundreds of online mental health forums, covering everything from depression to synesthesia. Some of them are quite large, like the About.com forums, and others are grassroots forums that emerged around small communities of mental illness sufferers who joined together to support each other as they struggled to cope with their mental illness […]

August 14, 2008. Larry Drain, founder of Hopeworks Community, a bipolar support and advocacy group in Blount County, Tennessee posted a review of our book Bipolar Disorder For Dummies.
Larry has some very valuable insights on bipolar disorder and related issues that often accompany bipolar, so be sure to check out the other areas of the […]

Over the past few months I’ve been looking up famous people touched with bipolar disorder and I’ve been amazed by the number of well known people that have been or who are afflicted by this disorder. Interestingly enough, it turns out that one of my favorite writers/poets/painters that I was deeply interested in while […]

Dear friends,

This week’s chat will be held Tuesday, October 28, 2008, at 8:00 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time. (That is the same as Wednesday, October 29, 2008, at 01:00 GMT/UTC.) Click here to join the chat.
Topic: This week we will have an open discussion; there will be no preset topic.
Please join us for some […]