A whopping 11 percent of American adults are taking antidepressants. That’s more than 1 in 10. This is according to a 2011 study by the Center for Disease Control. In 2012, there were 228.4 million prescriptions written for antidepressants, according to IMS Health.
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Kelly is a theatrical actress who got hooked on crystal meth and cocaine. In this excerpt from The Eccentrics, we see the irony of her addiction as it relates to her acting career.
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Williams confided to Carrie Fisher about his moods. While he didn’t believe he was bipolar, he answered yes to the five “Are You Bipolar?” questions Fisher posed at her one-woman show.
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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.
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The most profitable drug in the US is not Viagra. It’s not Ambien. It’s not Prozac. No, it’s…
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Conor answers a question from a reader about weaning yourself off drugs and how that can result in hypomania.
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Nancy C. Andreasen, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who studies creativity, wrote a fascinating article “Secrets of the Creative Brain” in a recent issue of The Atlantic.
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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. During these fits of absolute unconsciousness, I drank – God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink, rather than the drink to the insanity.”
– Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
In a recent Huffington Post article, bipolar was referred to as the “disease of the decade.” However, the word bipolar has become part of the vernacular for all the wrong reasons.
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Ethan is a thirtysomething Harvard-educated heroin junkie. While he is sober and stable now, he wasn’t always. Here is an excerpt from the forthcoming book The Eccentrics in which he relays one of his grandiose rock-bottoms. From Chapter 7, The Jetsetter: California. 2005. SFO airport. High on ketamine. Manic. He was wearing sunglasses and a crimson…
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