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Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs, 1/7

MarketingByMouth | November 21st 2009 by John Smith

www.encognitive.com Doctors might not be crazy about the idea, but patients are walking into their offices asking for specific drugs. They have heard about them on TV or read about them in magazines. Askier travels blissfully down a mountain of ragwe read more

Shaink16

5 Quick Stress Busters

Karmas for Meditation | November 20th 2009 by Karen Shain

How do you react when your plans fall through?  Do you roll with the punches?  Or does anxiety keep you from enjoying life?  To a great extent, our personality determines how we deal with stress in our lives, but here are 5 things to help keep you read more

Shaink16

4 Psychological Needs Help Deal With Conflict

Karmas for Meditation | November 20th 2009 by Karen Shain

Internal conflict, conflict within yourself, reflects the difference between what you really feel and what you are able or choose to do about it. Interpersonal conflict occurs between you and another person when what they do or say is different to wh read more

Shaink16

5 Great Tips to Handle Stress

Karmas for Meditation | November 20th 2009 by Karen Shain

Stress has always been a part of our lives. In this hectic time, people lead an increasingly stressful life. Experts state that a little stress can be good; it keeps you sharp and ready to move forward, and is sometimes vital for achieving optimum pe read more

Shaink16

3 Powerful Tips To Help Manage Everyday Stress

Karmas for Meditation | November 20th 2009 by Karen Shain

Often times stress will manifest when we carry over yesterday’s concerns into our present day concerns. An accumulation will almost always end up in a high stress level. Therefore, we must be able to “dump” all of our concerns from the previous read more

Immi

Help is help, nothing else

MigraineChow.com | November 20th 2009 by Immi

I probably did expect too much from treatment because of my medical approach to it, though. It wasn’t shrugging off responsibility, because it’s been my responsibility to even undergo it, and I’ve made changes in my life, but I wanted, and hop read more

manicmother

Noise and Space

Manic Mother | November 19th 2009 by Beth Mancuso

Let me preface this post by saying, I never thought I would be sharing what it is like to live with bipolar disorder. I feared people would misconstrue my words and wrongfully judge me. I have found the complete opposite to be true. You all read more

Immi

Unbelievable

MigraineChow.com | November 19th 2009 by Immi

That describes my life, I think. Got on Abilify successfully and it works great without me seeing green or anything like that. Got the settlement from the car accident I was in that was the other guy’s fault. Got all those doctors and surgeon a read more

WriteAboutLife

Try To Know The Eight Faces Of Depressive Disorder Symptoms

Easy Way to Happiness | November 19th 2009

It is therefore important that victims of bipolar, parents, friends and co-workers know how to recognize the eight groups of bipolar symptoms in a depressive mood. To seek help at the appropriate time for your friend or a loved one, be certain to edu read more

Chrysti

{Echo} Week 3- Abundance Roundup

Art By Chrysti | November 18th 2009 by Christy Hydeck

(click to see larger) Light and  Dark. Dark and Light. A Yin/Yang sorta thing, dontcha think? Seems to me, that the transition between the two recently is happening all too often in my life.  Mind you, I am not complaining – I learned long read more

wombatcat

Thank goodness, I think.

My Mentally Ill Life | November 18th 2009

We/I finally found the owner of the dog. He was two miles away from home when I found him....they were sure he had been shot by a deer hunter...I hope they keep him closer to home from now on....DH will miss the dog, and actually, so will I--there's read more

untreatable

5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Bipolar Disorder - Article

untreatable | November 18th 2009 by untreatable

1. How do you know I don't have bipolar disorder? Why you should ask this question: If you've never had an episode of mania, your doctor's honest answer should be "I can't know yet whether you have bipolar disorder." Most people with bipol read more

randomxhero

Food and Mental Health

Society | November 18th 2009

Twenty percent of Canadians will personally experience a mental illness during their lifetime. Although most mental illnesses begin during adolescence and young adulthood, people of all ages, cultures, educational and income levels experience mental read more

accidentalexpert

Should I or Shouldn't I?

Raising Complicated Kids | November 18th 2009

As those who have read this blog can attest, I'm what some would call a straight-shooter.  I hold little back, bearing my soul on a regular basis.  That's because, for me, I've found that facing something head-on is the best policy when it read more

F2FHealth

Where did THAT come from??

FacetoFace Health | Humanizing Healthcare | November 18th 2009 by Marketing

Wow.  What on Earth was that???  That came out of nowhere.... yesterday was one of the worse days I have had in a long time.  It totally took me by surprise and I was stuck in a rut all day long.  It was nothing but awful.&nb read more

Marcie2793

Is there a link between Eating Disorders and Bipolar Disorder?

Eating Disorders | November 18th 2009

anarchy_queen69 asked: Besides the obvious, impulsive behavior and low self esteem (as my boyfriend just pointed out to me), are there any other common links between anorexia or Bulimia and Bipolar Disorder? really, just doing some research for my p read more

CWM480

Living with BIPOLAR

Life,According To Christopher | November 17th 2009 by Christopher

  Hey Everyone,     I know that it has been over 2 weeks since I have wrote in my blog, and I guess that I need to break my silence and tell you whats been going on.       So where is what's been go read more

AbleMart

Bipolar Disorder: Nutrition As Medicine

Able Mart | November 17th 2009 by Denise

Treating bipolar disorder with prescription medications may be a necessary first step to get the symptoms of this disease under control. However, the drugs used for this health problem are indeed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit read more

Lindsay Lohan is happy as happy can be

Mia's Music & Lyrics | November 16th 2009

After all of the roughing up and family drama that has plagued the Lohans lately, Lindsay Lohan just comes out of the bloom and declares that she’s never been happier. At the Nu Pop movement this week-end Lindsay Lohan was quoted as saying: “ read more

meowgal

'Despair' gene linked to bipolar disorder, depression and schizop…

If You Are Going Through Hell, Keep Going | November 16th 2009 by susan schechter

An interesting article from The Big News Network. Com.Washington, Nov 14 : A gene, touted as the "despair" gene, which earlier had no relation with mood disorders, has now been found to have a link with bipolar disorder, depression, and sch read more

mysumobekti

Bipolar Disorder: Causes, Symptoms and Treatments

Health and Beauty | November 15th 2009

A bipolar disease is a serious mental problem where the patient constantly subjected to severe mood swings. It is a strange mental disorder where the patient undergoes maniac events at higher swings and extreme depressions and lower moods. Manic-depr read more

bipolarmo

Wheels

Bipolar Mo | November 14th 2009

This morning I was lying in the bath contemplating nothing in particular. Just letting my mind float off like one of Nena's 99 luftballons when I heard the dull thud of manilla on carpet then the clank of an angry letterbox as the postman from perdit read more

paulhurwood

Up and Down – Mostly Down

It's Just A Ride | November 14th 2009 by Paul Hurwood

OK, I admit it I missed a couple of doses of meds this past week but does that really give my head the excuse to go all curley whirly on me. Nothing seems to be calming me down. I am as jumpy as a Cajun catfish on the end of a hook and I am [...] read more

rackey

How to create your own Support Groups

You Healthy Bastard | November 13th 2009

Besides the everyday medication that must be taken by a bipolar disorder victim, bipolar support groups allow those who share a common diagnosis or interest to come together. They come together to share ideas on how to cope, but most importantly, to read more

SPLiiT

My Recovery Journal

spliit: BPD Lifestyle Blog | November 12th 2009 by Stephanie

Dear Diary, Sometimes we must hit our weakest point aka hit bottom, to really commit to change and realize what your priorities should be. I had my priorities all screwed up. I was a workaholic- I used to keep myself busy every moment of the day to d read more

untreatable

How mood mapping helped me beat bipolar disorder - Article

untreatable | November 12th 2009 by untreatable

I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was 28. I was a successful neurosurgeon in a leading UK teaching hospital, and a leading researcher in head injury. This diagnosis followed 12 months in which I had experienced a series of personal and wo read more

wmspeep

Oh, The Adderall

Raising Bipolar | November 12th 2009 by Meg

How quickly we forget. As I have been posting and reading over the past few days it has occurred to me, I think we have all missed a key piece in our journey here. Rye was taking Adderall XR for a brief time before he had the real strange behaviors a read more

moodpendulum

restless

Mood Pendulum | November 11th 2009 by t.s. lincoln

i’m restless. i sit and daydream i sit and draw endless abstract objects to consume my mind in this mindless chair. restless to be outside on these beautiful day. restless to do something extreme and irrational. restless to feel. read more

wombatcat

Cats and craziness (or...I'm scared still/again)

My Mentally Ill Life | November 10th 2009

Last night I got to stay with my mom in her apartment. And I dared to get hopeful. Nothing she said was weird, she didn't come out into the living room to find the bathroom, and she fell back asleep after the aide came in to remind her to go to the read more

moodpendulum

down

Mood Pendulum | November 10th 2009 by t.s. lincoln

why do i spin down… why does my mind go negative and think paranoid thoughts. i was enjoying my hypo-mania, i don’t wanna lose this feeling, but i feel it slipping away – like sand thru my fingers, the energy isn’t there, the read more