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 [...]
Screening hot line, Web site can help with holiday blues
I admit to being a cynic, it goes deep into my being. So is it any surprise that the above article from The Stars and Stripes sets my spider-sense to tingling? How about this:
Officials with Boston-based Screening for Mental Health Inc. work with the [...]
Cocaine use, manic phase cited in wrong-way fatal 590 crash
A clinical pharmacist testified Tuesday that Herman H. Bank lacked adequate insight and judgment into the consequences of his actions on the night he is accused of driving his car the wrong way on I-590 and killing two people.
“According to his history, he engages in cocaine [...]
Restaurateur, former city council candidate Crafaik dies
This article is about a suicide – what people expect in a bipolar disorder death. Not surprisingly, he appears to be an interesting and successful person:
Longtime Michael’s Bistro owner and former politician J. Michael Crafaik III, 37, died Saturday, December 13 at UVA hospital, according to [...]
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 [...]
