Jimi Hendrix is a touchstone in American culture. To say he is a rock icon is an understatement. Hendrix transcends rock ‘n’ roll. But from alcohol to marijuana to LSD to cocaine, he was a notorious addict.
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Music — a soothing force — can be extremely therapeutic in cases of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, autism, PTSD, dementia, asthma, speech impairment, and acute pain.
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Raw Power. It’s the title of the 1973 third album by Iggy and the Stooges. And it describes Iggy Pop to a T. An extreme heroin addict, Iggy Pop is a punk icon. He was a punk even before there was something called “punk.”
Pop was notorious for reckless performance antics — indecent exposure, rolling around shirtless in broken glass (he always performs shirtless) — and vomiting on the audience. He invented the stage dive.
David Bowie attacks rock ’n’ roll as if it were performance art. A musical chameleon, Bowie is a glam-rock god. But he was out of control with drugs.
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When you’re first diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it can take up to a year or more to get on the right medication cocktail. But what if you could feel results instantaneously? With Low-Field Magnetic Stimulation, you can.
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I can think of no album that is happier than The Flaming Lips’ 1993 noise-pop masterpiece Transmissions From the Satellite Heart.
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Halsey is a tough girl with a rebellious mystique. A rare commodity in this world of plastic music, she is a pop star who writes all her own material. Her debut album Badlands currently sits at number 16 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart. It peaked at number two. She’s accomplished all of this in the face of bipolar.
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When I saunter into my day job, I see a spectrum of color. Delicious desserts like colorful cupcakes. Sinful donuts. Rainbow-sprinkled cookies. And everything from cannoli to tiramisu. Depressed Cake Shop aims to raise awareness about depression by baking dark and dreary desserts. It’s a pop-up shop traveling the world.
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While it can’t be easy keeping up with a busy filming schedule, she’s managed to do it, despite her bipolar, proving once again that our illness does not have to be not debilitating.
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There are no brain scans, X-rays, or MRIs that can identify bipolar disorder or any other mood disorder. But pee? Yes, your urine might be able to help discern what mood disorder you may have.
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