Word: manic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During these past two manic-depressing weeks, many have succumbed to the temptation of short fuses, of freely speaking their minds once too often, over-indulging in the shoulder-shrugging "screw it all" motivation to do something they might never have done otherwise. And that's fine. Nihilism and the Last Chance Dance are good up to a point-the occasional bridge needs to go up in flames, if only for form's sake. But we seem to be embracing the opportunities for closure a little too heartily these days. The past is and always will be with you-didn...
...provide emotional salvation is in short supply in rock 'n' roll these days. Old records by groups like U2 convey the feeling, and so do some recent releases by younger acts like New Radicals. Thankfully, the notion also comes across on the latest CD by the British band Manic Street Preachers. The group offers up big, melodic, cathedral-filling songs that clearly have social and spiritual aspirations beyond just rocking the house: one of the tracks is bluntly titled If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next. A few numbers are a bit limp, but when this group...
...they cannot outgrow. Depression cycles over and over again throughout a lifetime, peaking during episodes of emotional distress, subsiding only to well up again at the next crisis. And as research increasingly shows, depression is often a marker for other disorders, including the syndrome that used to be called manic depression and is now known as bipolar disorder. If undetected and untreated in preteens, depressive episodes can lead to severe anxiety or manic outbursts not only in adulthood but as early as adolescence...
...acting up for a restless teenager to attract professional attention. On a website sponsored by Channel One, a television network for school-age youth, a recent posting written with the help of the National Association for Mental Illness classified the following behaviors as possible symptoms of manic depression in teens: "increased talking--the adolescent talks too much," "distractibility," "unrealistic highs in self-esteem--for example, a teenager who feels specially connected...
BRAIN FOOD It may sound implausible, but researchers think a type of fat in fish--known as omega-3 fatty acids--could help people with manic depression. A preliminary report shows that patients who for four months took daily pills containing 10,000 mg of omega-3s (that's about five salmon steaks' worth) were twice as likely to go into remission as those on a placebo...