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The Elephant In The Bipolar Room
Stigma, medication, treatment options, recovery, patient rights and physiological basis are some of the most discussed topics regarding bipolar. There are, of course, many other interesting aspects to...
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How I Found Ecstasy In Depression
http://jonathanwallacestudio.com/ I have been meditating for over 50 years. I started when, at five years old, I became fascinated with watching my breath go in and out. I intuitively knew that this...
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Garbage In, Garbage Out – The Failure of Depression and Bipolar Treatment...
The Experts Are Asking The Wrong Questions About Depression And Bipolar Disorder. Over the last ten years I have spoken with thousands of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder. When I ask them to...
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The Six Stages Of Bipolar And Depression
Moving From Bipolar Disorder To Bipolar IN Order Everyone has up and down times. It is a natural part of life. If we observe our lives over time we might say there are two poles that we have; some days...
View ArticleHow To Achieve Bipolar IN Order
This video is from a public television program called “Moving From Bipolar Disorder To Bipolar IN Order.” It explains what bipolar is and the difference between disorder and IN Order by detailing the...
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Becoming More Aware of Depression and Bipolar
You can live in the same neighborhood for thirty years and still have little idea of what is going on there. You can shop in the stores, eat in the restaurants, talk with the neighbors, and feel that...
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Functionality-Based Understanding For Depression and Bipolar Disorder
When I first started putting together the protocol for assessing depression and bipolar disorder, I was working with a professor of Psychiatry to make sure the ideas were sound. His advice was to...
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Expanding The Comfort Zone In Bipolar And Depression Leads To Measurably...
Understanding the role of comfort is critical for getting Bipolar IN Order. To do so, we must measure comfort at each level of intensity for both mania and depression. When we compare comfort levels to...
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Finding Value In Depression And Mania
Assuming you are not deeply depressed right now, try to remember the time when you were in the deepest depression of your life. Can you see any way it might have changed your life for the better? Did...
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Accounting For Time In Depression and Mania
When I look at how they account for time in the DSM-V, I wonder if they know anything about depression or bipolar. They know time plays an important role, but they don’t seem to understand the role...
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Burning The Bible – Let’s not replace one set of dogma with another.
Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, has issued a sharply worded condemnation of the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). The DSM...
View ArticleEight Essential Steps To Freedom From Bipolar Disorder
Please check out our newest video – Eight Essential Steps To Freedom From Bipolar Disorder – This is from the keynote presentation at the annual conference for the California Association of Marriage...
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Bipolar Advantages – No Longer If, But Why And How
I attended a great presentation at the APA annual conference in San Francisco about Achievement, Innovation, and Leadership in the Affective Spectrum. Four distinguished panelists gave presentations...
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Is The Delusion That Comes With Remission Holding You Back?
Some call it ‘state specific memory,’ but after ten years and thousands of interviews I prefer to call it ‘bi-cycling delusion.’ It is the delusion that comes with the bipolar cycles and a primary...
View ArticleBipolar Children of Undiagnosed Parents
We get a lot of calls from parents who are looking for help with their bipolar children. We make great progress within the first few visits, but too often run into an underlying issue that needs to be...
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Mindfulness Does Not Lead To Happiness
The part of our minds that most people identify with is the part that silently talks to us with a running commentary. We listen to it all day long. Let’s call it “The Talker.” “The Talker” prefers...
View ArticleAre You Causing Stigma While Fighting Against It?
Individuals and organizations throughout the world are dedicated to the important work of removing the stigma that affects people with depression and bipolar disorder. Unfortunately, too many of them...
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Bipolar People Get Angry Too
Bipolar in disorder combined with anger is a very dangerous mix. The disordered person tends to become very volatile and can explode into a rage with little provocation. It is best for the person to...
View ArticleWhy I Am Against Targeting Zero Symptoms For Bipolar Disorder and Calling...
There is a new effort to promote complete remission as the goal of treatment for people with bipolar in disorder and I am fundamentaly opposed to it. I have written about the topic many times, so I...
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X-Men: Days of Future Past Explores Bipolar Disorder
I have long argued that the X-Men movies are a great metaphor for bipolar disorder. When X-Men: The Last Stand came out I wrote an article about how the X-Men’s struggle to control their “super powers”...
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