Sep 9, 2012 | Mental Health
From An Unquiet Mind: My manias, at least in their early and mild forms, were absolutely intoxicating states that gave rise to great personal pleasure, an incomparable flow of thoughts, and a ceaseless energy that allowed the translation of new ideas into papers and...
Sep 8, 2012 | Mental Health
I am quoting directly from An Unquiet Mind. The countless hypomanias, and the mania, itself all have brought into my life a different level of sensing and feeling and thinking. Even when I have been most psychotic-delusional, hallucinating, frenzied-I have been...
Sep 7, 2012 | Mental Health
I know I wrote that I love paper books. But, I am directing you to a brain series that will educate you on mental illness. It is a programme that is hosted by the great Charlie Rose and features some of the most important and prominenet people in medicine and science....
Sep 2, 2012 | Mental Health
My work as a chaplain at Toronto General Hospital included caring for those waiting for heart transplants. Some waited for many months. Everything that they did or ate was recorded, even the number of grapes because they contain fluid and fluid intake had to be...
Jul 2, 2012 | Mental Health
Wilson Phillips sing Hold On. And that’s what you must do when in the pit of the abyss. You must hold on. Know that there is help. Reach out for it. Trust. Yeah I know that there is pain.But you hold on for one more day and you break free. Break from the chains....
Jul 1, 2012 | Mental Health
I am appalled that we can live in a country that spends time and energy and money on pleading with those with mental illness NOT to take their lives and here we are making it legal. I have written elsewhere that I believe that no one who is thinking clearly will take...
