As we’ve discussed many times, good life insurance rates are available if you have bipolar disorder if you meet certain criteria, underwriting guidelines. For the purposes of underwriting, while the companies may call them guidelines, assume they are rules. You are simply not going to slide by sort of meeting most of the criteria.
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I’ve got a bug; if I don’t blog about it within at least 24 hours, it never gets blogged. Gotta iron that one out.
There are some emails I need to get to (apologies for not writing you back yet), some calls I need to make, and some checks I need to write. Of course, none […]

I’ve been thinking lately about time and its relationship to bipolar disorder and more specifically on how time, consistency and expectation impact our relationship to ourselves and the perspectives of people who view us from the outside. In our daily lives consistency seems to be something that is sought after as the foundation that […]

There are more causes of depression than most people think. Aside from the standard ones that everyone is aware of like hormone deficiencies, a diet heavy in omega-3 acids, seasonal changes in sunlight or the ups and downs of bipolar disorder there are many other things that can cause a person to suffer from depression.
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From Dr. Andrew L. Stoll’s book: The Omega-3 Connection
The long-term treatment of patients with bipolar disorder relies on the so-called mood stabilizers such as lithium and valproate. These often produce dramatically good results long term and have saved thousands of lives. Unfortunately, patients using lithium often experience weight gain, tremors, increased urination, drowsiness, and […]

Woke up with this phrase in my head this morning from my fuzzy dreams. After yesterday’s vivid lucid dreams, today’s were fairly tame, but in the last one I was enjoying an excellent dinner of steak and green beans with Tom and Jonathan and some wonderful beer. I have no idea what that means dreamwise […]