Word: bipolarity
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...this bipolar world of baseball superpowers, it should come as little surprise that Tom Brady was excoriated in the press for wearing the enemy’s baseball cap. As Joseph McCarthy exposed anti-American activity through tactics of humiliation over 50 years ago, so too is the Herald exposing Brady’s apparent anti-Bay State leanings. This is a matter of the utmost importance to members of Red Sox nation. If Brady is the victim of a witch-hunt, he can take solace in the tragic demonization of Alger Hiss before...
...empathy—stemming, presumably, from a lack of knowledge—must therefore be the source of these claims: “I’m so depressed! I got a C- on my exam!” “I’m feeling totally bipolar today!” “I alphabetize all the books on my shelf! I totally have OCD!” Such statements are not intended to trivialize, but for people who are depressed, manic-depressive, or obsessive-compulsive, these attempts at humor only entrench alienation and stigma...
...senior in high school, Kay Redfield Jamison spent her days contemplating killing herself. At age 28, after years of debilitating depression, she overdosed on lithium in a suicide attempt that landed her in a coma. Last night, Jamison, now a Johns Hopkins Medical School psychiatry professor specializing in bipolar disorder, reflected on her own struggles with manic depression. She told a crowd of mostly students that the widespread reluctance to come forward with mental health issues is a major public health problem. “Such privacy and reticence can kill,” she said, noting that many people...
...efficient way for it to work," says Malhi, chair of psychological medicine at the University of Sydney. While patients' brains over-activated in response to fear, they under-activated for disgust. The researchers believe that what they've found in these impairments is a biological marker of bipolar disorder that could be the makings of a test. "We're excited about this because the potential is huge," says Lagopoulos, "but we have to temper our enthusiasm" until further research can confirm these differences as statistically bullet-proof...
...Possible objections include the perennial doubt about whether what we're seeing in these types of studies is illness pathology or an effect of drug treatment. And is there a chance that sufferers of straight (unipolar) depression might show the same processing irregularities as bipolar patients? Which would be the death knell of a test purported to separate the two. Malhi and Lagopoulos doubt this would be the case - the two types of depression are quite different, they say-but Malhi adds: "No study has directly compared the two groups... and this would be the ideal experiment." For Malhi...