Word: bipolarized
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...pain is far worse than you probably know. What's more, since one family member disabled by the disorder can destabilize an entire household, a single diagnosed case can mean several collateral victims. Worse, OCD is a condition that often masquerades as other things. It is routinely labeled depression, bipolar disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, even schizophrenia. Victims often conceal their problem for years, ensuring that no diagnosis--right or wrong--can begin to be made...
...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...
...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...