Tag: bipolar

Coffee Good for Depression. Sybil Revealed. Bipolar Questions Answered. – 3 New Things

Posted by Natasha Tracy | Oct 16, 2011

Keep up with mental health news. Three new things in mental health to learn this week:

The more coffee (caffeine) your drink, the less likely you’ll be depressed
Clinical records of real-life Sybil (part of the basis of “multiple personality disorder”) show likely falsehoods and unethical treatment
Get your bipolar questions answered by a clinical psychologist

Bipolar, Hypomania, Depression and Looking Crazy

Posted by Natasha Tracy | Jan 10, 2011

I can feel the post-depression-bounce-back hypomania beginning in my brain; not in my body, only in my brain. Hypomanic symptoms started yesterday evening. Things started seeming clear, perhaps just a little too clear, and certainly a little too fast. Bipolar fast. Gospel music (yes, oddly) played in my head intermittently while I guided an old tourist couple to the park, I drafted my upcoming novel, planned a conversation, and I investigated the fallen tree branch in the middle of the baseball field. Rapid fire thoughts, hypomanic thoughts, took over.