Addicts are negligent and neglectful derelicts who are to be castigated and marginalized in society. That’s 20th Century thinking. Bernie and Hillary — on the other hand — understand the mental health aspects of the disease of addiction as they voiced their opinions in Sunday’s Democratic debate.
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Would you like to be held accountable for taking your meds? What if your doctor or your mom, for example, knew exactly if and when you took your pills? Yes, Big Brother is watching you, again.
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Herring. Mackerel. Salmon. Halibut. Tuna. Swordfish. All of these types of fish contain what are called omega-3 fatty acids. Because of their biological importance to the brain, omega-3s just may be helpful in the treatment of bipolar depression.
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Subjects in the study were randomly assigned to go on a 90-minute walk through nature in a quiet, leafy area of the Stanford campus. Or on the flipside, next to a noisy highway in Palo Alto, California. The nature walkers experienced lower levels of rumination and showed reduced activity in an area of the brain linked to risk for mental illness.
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Scott Weiland — frontman for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver and a bipolar addict for years — died Friday in his sleep, reportedly of a heart attack. He was 48.
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The Grammy-winning singer revealed she had bipolar disorder on The Oprah Winfrey Show in October of 2007. However, it was later revealed that her bipolar diagnosis was incorrect. What she had really been experiencing was depression influenced by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), stemming from her tumultuous childhood. O’Connor is in the news this week because she tried to kill herself again.
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The darkness creeps in at 5:37PM today. It just makes me want to go to sleep. I get home from work around 6:30, eat dinner, then go to bed most nights not long after. My gift to you this winter is this mix. It’s made up of songs that are either about happiness or that sound happy. A cure for Seasonal Affective Disorder.
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Stan Getz and João Gilberto are the debonair and dynamic duo of bossa nova. I can think of no album that inspires more tranquility than Getz/Gilberto, the 1965 Grammy winner for Best Album of the Year.
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Creed was a late ‘90s alternative-rock band with a Christian bent. Extreme paranoia gripped Creed lead singer Scott Stapp in November 2014, when he experienced his first major manic episode. He made a cryptic YouTube video documenting his hallucinations.
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I don’t know about you, but the holidays are the toughest time for me to stay sober. There’s nothing more comforting than a glass of wine or champagne to celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, or to ring in the New Year. Maybe it has something to do with the association between wine and food, and there’s so much of both this time of year.
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