Kay Redfield Jamison

The Bipolar Brain and the Creative Mind "Our hospital was famous and had housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness? ... What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?" (1) The link between madness and creativity is one that has been hotly debated in both medical and literary circles for a long time. The two most common types of mental illness theorized to be an

Because of the fall and sin that corrupted the world I am broken and far from righteous. This became especially evident when I documented my feelings, thoughts and behaviors over the course of the last month and a half. Since a lot of unusual and extreme situations came up in my life during that time, it was particularly interesting to look back at those moments. What I discovered was that my image of myself and God’s version of it are very far from each other. My mom has always complained that

Types of Depression, there’s so many of them everyone is different so everyone has their different depression type. Here are some common types that are more known or in your case you probably never heard of. Major Depression or also known as Chronic Depression. Major Depression is lost in interest, lost in energy and this mood could last for a day or more. Systems of this could be feeling guilty, worthless, hypersonic (extensive sleep), restless, slowed down, thoughts that recur on death or doing

Personal Theory Paper In partial fulfillment of the assignment submitted to Dr. Max Mills PACO 507 Theology and Spirituality in Counseling Lynn C. Ball Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary May 8, 2015 Abstract I stumbled through the first thirty-eight years of life attempting to mask the hurts caused by myself and others. I was my own worst critic fueled by raging addictions and chaos; searching to find a perfection that could never be achieved. Life was a hurricane of madness

Nicholas was a fifteen year old boy who, for many years, was harassed without anyone at school ever intervening. He was tormented, criticized, and called homophobic names. One day, a group of boys pushed him into the swimming pool while he was fully clothed. Everyone laughed, including the teacher. Nicholas was so distressed; he had reached his limit. The next day, he hurled himself from the town’s railway bridge, killing himself. Another teacher tried to convince the school of the connection between

Bipolar Disorder and the Creative Genius Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a psychopathology that affects approximately 1% of the population. (1) Unlike unipolar disorder, also known as major affective disorder or depression, bipolar disorder is characterized by vacillating between periods of elation (either mania or hypomania) and depression. (1, 2) Bipolar disorder is also not an illness that remedies itself over time; people affected with manic depression are manic-depressives

Bipolar Illness       Bipolar illness, also called manic depression, is misdiagnosed on the average of two out of three times; unfortunately it is an illness that kills one in four afflicted persons. Major psychiatric disorders such as bipolar illness make up half of the leading causes of disease related disability in the United States (www.windsofchange.com/bipol.html).      Bipolar illness is a major psychological disorder characterized by episodes of mania, depression, or mixed moods.

A Personal Experience of Learning About Bipolar Disorder My daughter Ashley, an engaging, highly intelligent, beautiful and artistically talented teenager, suffers from a life threatening genetic illness. It is an illness of extremes with a high, some estimates are as much as 20%, mortality rate. It is sometimes, as with my daughter, difficult to treat. It is always difficult for those so afflicted and their families. The contemporary nomenclature for this disease is Bi-Polar Disorder (1).