Word: manically
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...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...
...their previous research that, presented with certain stimuli, depressed bipolar patients don't use the prefrontal (or higher thinking) part of their brain as much as healthy subjects do, instead recruiting other (more hardwired) parts to compensate. And they found a similar pattern of activation in patients at the manic end of the spectrum. This was tantalizing because it suggested the disparities were related not to mood but to bipolar itself. Needing more evidence, they began studying bipolar patients in the euthymic state - when their moods have stabilized and they appear to be well. The results continued to suggest that...
...mess and shock, the only thing lacking in “Back to Black” is, well, more mess and shock. Winehouse’s grainy and emotional voice should soar and dance; you expect trills and thrills, decadence and manic madness. But after being patient through the entire album, waiting for it to get really, really exciting, you discover that Winehouse keeps things disappointingly in check, favoring smooth R&B lines and lush vibrato...