4:00 PM
For two years in a row now I’ve switched apartments. This time, I’ve moved back to my old stomping grounds. The apartment I’m in is about 4 or 5 times as large as the previous 250 square foot apartment I shared with my girlfriend and yet we still got it for $225 less than […]

Lithium carbonate remains the mainstay of treatment in bipolar disorder, although sodium valproate is equally effective in acute mania. Carbamazepine is also efficacious. The response rate to lithium carbonate is 70 to 80 percent in acute mania, with beneficial effects appearing in 1 to 2 weeks. A prophylactic effect in prevention of recurrent mania, and, […]

I first discovered this article in May of 2003. I did a search on my posts for the word “present”, and this is the second post that came up. The first is this one on a trip to Disneyland. This seems to be around the time when I actually began to wake up from my […]

I’ve written a previous post about celebrity lives and why they predispose people towards problems with their mental health. In it I mention Britney Spears, who has been regularly described in the press as ‘troubled’ for some time now. Things took an altogether more serious turn when on Thursday she was taken […]

Results from a new global survey on bipolar disorder, released today at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress, indicate that both patients and healthcare professionals face significant challenges in managing bipolar disorder. At least 90% of patients surveyed reported that the illness is difficult to understand and to live with due to the episodic symptoms.
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Genetic findings converge with previous research to reveal what goes wrong in the nervous system of bipolar patients. A large genomic study suggests that defective sodium and calcium channels in neurons may explain an important part of the physiological mechanism of bipolar disorder.

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Despite being very famous, Heath Ledger had somehow passed me by until a few weeks ago when I watched ‘Monster’s Ball’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’ within a few weeks of each other. It seems likely that his death was caused by an overdose of sleeping pills, either mistakenly or intentionally. As a psychiatrist […]

Sleep has been very erratic once again, and its effect on my productivity has been disastrous. In the past several days, I have spent a grand total of about 30 hours awake, most of which was squandered playing play-money poker online. In short, I feel like a lazy sloth and I’m hating the feeling.
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Hello everyone!
I’d like to take a moment to ask you, “Just how much BS are you currently working with in your day?” It’s my opinion that most bipolar folks have any number of piles stacking up at any one time thanks to their out of control symptoms list. I’m talking about stress. There’s plenty […]

As a general warning, those of you who are sick of the blogosphere’s typical unadulterated flow of personal outcryings will probably want to stop reading my blog for the next…well for a while, anyway. With that out of the way, we now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
Sleep Woes
The last thing I wanted to do […]