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.
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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.
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Injection centers – safe spaces for people to inject illicit drugs like heroin — have come to America, and New York is the latest city to hop on board.
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Esketamine recently passed a phase-two clinical trial with flying colors, demonstrating its therapeutic uses for suicidal depression. The effects of esketamine occur in just four hours after treatment — an unheard-of length of time compared to conventional antidepressants such as Prozac and Paxil
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Rapid cycling occurs when a person flips from manic to depressed, or vice versa, within a matter of days, weeks, months, or even hours.
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I don’t know how I managed to go stealth, but I did. A lot of smoking and gum chewing was involved in my cover-up scheme, though that doesn’t usually mask the smell all the way, since the alcohol emanates from your pores as well.
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Mariah Carey is now the most high-profile person living with bipolar disorder. She’s a beautiful woman even at 48, a superstar with pipes of gold and a voice that could outshine an opera singer. And now, she joins the ranks of fellow pop-culture icons like Carrie Fisher, Marilyn Monroe, and Amy Winehouse in what I’ll call the bipolar diva club.
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I don’t know about you, but it’s springtime that usually triggers my mania. The warm weather, the tulips popping up, green grass, and trees with budding leaves makes me feel high after a winter of hibernation and depression.
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Everyone around you just wants the best for you. But the best isn’t always what’s in store for us bipolar folks. We all wear masks. Even the normies. Everyone has something wrong with their life. We cover up the bad things and pretend to be all right.
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I used to be ashamed of my bipolar status. I was ashamed of all of the screwball things I did when I was manic. We who are bipolar are all a little bit eccentric. I’m proud to be eccentric and I think it’s what makes me me. I’ve been stable, without a manic episode, since 2009.
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