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.
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.
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.
Conor Oberst, a.k.a. Bright Eyes, is perhaps the greatest songwriter of my generation. Evoking bipolar and depression, this album is as moody as it gets.
We’ve all encountered people who don’t understand our disease. Whether they’re ignorant and don’t believe bipolar is a real affliction or they just can’t comprehend it, there will always be naysayers or those who can’t sympathize. Here’s a roundup of questions and statements we with bipolar hate being asked or told.
Everyone in the world is affected by mental illness in some way. Whether you have mental illness yourself or if you have a friend or family member who does, mental illness is universal.
Our culture has come a long way since One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. While the Jack Nicholson film is indeed a great one, it is nowhere near an accurate picture of what mental illness and treatment look like today. The following films get it right.
Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, occurs when a person experiences mania – an elevated mood marked by increased energy, delusions of grandeur, and sometimes psychosis, paranoia, and hallucinations. Mania is a perpetual high that feels like doing cocaine without actually snorting it. Those who struggle with this malady are also plagued with bouts of horrible depression.
It’s the feeling you get when you’re higher than the moon for no reason at all. You’re invincible. Everything you do or say is brilliant. You’re hyper-aware. You’re bathing in a pool of euphoria. You’re high. But you didn’t do any drugs. That high is addictive.
This Thanksgiving, we are thankful for our sobriety. We are thankful for our sanity. We are thankful for our fellowship. We are thankful for our friends and family who have supported us. And we are also thankful for our creativity.
