Conor Bezane is a music-meister who has written for MTV News, AOL, and VICE. He is a recovering bipolar addict who can be found digging through the crates at a local record store when he’s not attacking his keyboard, writing nonfiction. His first book, The Bipolar Addict, is available now on Amazon.
Raised on smartphones, Snapchat, and Spotify, millennials are now experiencing the highest levels of major depression among any other demographic group. New info released by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) shows spikes in depression among young people.
Jamie Lee Curtis is more than just a “scream queen,” the nickname she earned for her numerous appearances in blockbuster horror movies, including 1978’s Halloween and its sequel. Recovery is the greatest success of her life.
Be a tough guy. Play it cool. Hide your feelings. And, above all, never let anyone see you cry. I’m here to tell you that being a real tough guy is totally different.
You don’t even deserve to be bipolar. But if you are, you’re a buffoon. You are a total faux-artist provocateur — not in a good way — and an egomaniacal rapper who’s now only in it for the fame and fortune.
Suicide is like a volcano. If your brain is wired for depression or suicide, like a volcano is wired to erupt, when the sleeping dragon awakes, the fire and frenzy flows down to the sea, and there’s no turning back.
Suicide is becoming rampant — and not just among celebrities, such as Robin Williams, Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Scott Hutchison, and most recently, Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, but among the entire population.
You don’t even deserve to be bipolar. But if you are, you’re a buffoon. You are a total faux-artist provocateur — not in a good way — and an egomaniacal rapper who’s now only in it for the fame and fortune.
It was in rehab in 2012 that I decided to carry the flag for the mentally ill. I’d received my diagnosis of bipolar four years earlier and ended up in treatment because I was drinking two six-packs of beer or two bottles of wine — or more — every night.
Diana Ross is an astronomical powerhouse of a singer, having built her reputation as the star of The Supremes, one of the premier Motown acts of the 1960s. But beneath the chart-topping and star acting, a beastly addiction to alcohol and prescription painkillers emerged.
Humble emotions of joy and grief ebb and flow in the music of Frightened Rabbit, a band from small-town Scotland who lost its lead singer, 36-year-old Scott Hutchison, to apparent suicide on Thursday.