All the media attention given to Michael Jackson gets me thinking. Where does this rank in terms of pop-culture mourning? From the post Kennedy era, that leaves John Lennon, George Harrison, Princess Di, and Michael Jackson. Personally, I’d rank them as Princess Di, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, with George Harrison as a [...]
One constant among those who suffer from bipolar disorder is medication. Get a group of people with bipolar disorder together and that’s going to be the main source of conversation for them. There are a handful of brave souls out there living a life without medication, and my hat is off to them. [...]
From the news, another case of wrong-place-wrong-time that would not have occurred if not for bipolar disorder. Yet another tragic bipolar disorder death.
Woodworker shot dead in Robinwood
He was a well-known craftsman in the Severna Park area with the gift to make wood come alive.
But Timothy Hayes Marsh, 48, also struggled with bipolar disorder, his [...]
Finding words at last for an unspeakable loss
Danielle and Ken Lambert’s 5-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son were carried to their deaths into oncoming traffic on Interstate 495 in Lowell by Danielle’s identical twin in a nearly unfathomable tragedy…
Lambert lost not only her only children, but her sister, Marcelle Thibault, on Jan. 11…
Thibault, who was 39, [...]
One of my favorite publications, Salon.com, ran a review of Carrie Fisher’s new book “Wishful Drinking”. It offers an excellent, if critical, review with a rare insight.
Here’s some quotes from that review:
In “Wishful Drinking,” Fisher dispenses with any pretense about mining her own veins for material. “I heard someone once say that we’re only [...]
A quote by Italy’s billionaire prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi:
“If I sleep for three hours, I still have enough energy to make love for another three,” the newspaper La Repubblica quoted him as telling the younger crowd. “I hope that when you hit 70, you’re in as good shape as I am.”
In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents’ Genes Are in Competition
Two scientists, drawing on their own powers of observation and a creative reading of recent genetic findings, have published a sweeping theory of brain development that would change the way mental disorders like autism and schizophrenia are understood.
The theory emerged in part from thinking [...]
It takes a lot to penetrate the frame-of-mind I have these days, but the McCain campaign managed to do it.
McCain suggests Obama tax policies are socialist.
First a terrorist, now a socialist. There is no depth too low for McCain to stoop to smear Obama.
Many Christian pastors dismiss mental illness
Study: A third of those who sought church help told disorder was spiritual
In a study of Christian church members who approached their church for help with a personal or family member’s diagnosed mental illness, researchers found that more than 32 percent were told by their pastor that they or their [...]
