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...down a darker path, filled with neuroses and insecurity and real loss. The dark didn’t really win over until the second encore: Hughes sat way in the back, leaving Darnielle alone to finish off the show with “Shadow Song.” The manic joy faded away and Darnielle stood alone for the first time that night, grimacing and facing his demons head on, on their own terms. When he stepped away from the microphone to yell, it sent a shiver through the room. Still, it was hard not to smile after the show...
...Petersen’s textbooks tend to remain stiff-spined and clean-margined because he has reading and researching that has nothing to do with a syllabus. Without the president’s near-manic devotion to his job, it would be hard to imagine the UC producing volumes such as the 10,000-word position paper that was released at the beginning of the Council’s “Mental Health Awareness Month” in April...
...romanticize farmhands and factory workers. But what of the John Henrys plowing sweatily through PowerPoint presentations? White-collar employees, who make up 60% of the workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are largely absent from pop lyrics, except for novelty songs and minor works. (The Bangles' Manic Monday mainly proves that the songwriter Prince is more convincing on the subject of sex than commuting.) As far as songwriters are concerned, the Dilberts of the world can buy their MP3s, but they can't have noble souls and inner lives...
...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...
...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 are afraid of the repercussions of making...