From Stircrazy
People with bipolar disorder — or manic depression — suffer from an accelerated shrinking of their brain, researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found.
…”Although we do no yet know the cause of this brain shrinkage, it may be that repeated episodes of illness harm the brain and lead to the decline. Another possibility [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Mental wellness, Op-eds, Resources on July 30th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
(authors note – we’ve spent the last several days retrieving and reposting some of the content we used to have on our various site incarnations and I thought this was worth running now, instead of back in the archives)
Someone said that she was about to ask me a dumb question this month and then proceeded [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Op-eds, Resources on July 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There are three simple things you can do to support your mental health and wellness, no matter what diagnosis you have.
The first is to STOP.
Stop running in circles - stop torturing yourself, and others and stop telling yourself that you can ignore it and ‘it’ will go away.
The second is to accept.
Denial in all forms [...]
Filed under: D Kai Wilson, Information, Mental wellness, Op-eds, free reprint on July 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
