I work in a bakery at a gourmet grocery store. I am perfectly comfortable saying that I’m writing a book. I only work three days a week so that I have free time to write, which my coworkers know. But when people ask what the book is about, I am reticent to tell them.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, I never thought in a zillion years I would agree with anything Governor of New Jersey and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie is saying. But what he’s saying — a sympathetic plea for us addicts — is groundbreaking.
One of the most outspoken opponents of bipolar stigma is Demi Lovato, the former Disney star turned multimedia darling who is bipolar and has also struggled with addiction, bulimia, and self-harm.
It’s ignorant to think that people with mood disorders can just power through their days with the help of God and the steps. It just doesn’t work that way. Some of us need medication because of our conditions.
You are 100 percent unique. Your brain has an individualized fingerprint. One that could be used to specialize treatment for your bipolar or for others who have different types of mood disorders, says new study.
Soft and sensational, Belle & Sebastian’s The Boy With the Arab Strap tranquilizes the listener with its amalgam of subtle instrumentation. Belle & Sebastian are a Scottish twee-pop band with nine albums under their belt. Twee pop is sensitive and romantic. With its jingle-jangle guitars, it has the feel and idealism of ‘60s pop.
Music — a soothing force — can be extremely therapeutic in cases of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, autism, PTSD, dementia, asthma, speech impairment, and acute pain.
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.
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.
