#bipolar-disorder

#bipolar-disorder

Selena Gomez has spoken openly of her mental-health struggles  bipolar disorder, depression, psychosis  in recent years.Her new song, My Mind & Me, arrives as the title track of a documentary that reveals some of her low points.The music moves from fragility to determination, from lone, echoey piano notes to a supportive march and a mission statement, as she sings, All of the crashing and burning and breaking I know now/If somebody sees me like this then they won't feel alone.

"This case was initially prosecuted by the previous office," Burrell said, referring to Boudin, who was recalled by voters last year."I'm aware," Giorgi dryly responded.The DA's office is now under the purview of Brooke Jenkins.The prosecutor assigned to the case, Darby Williams, did not object to Burrell's request for an extension.

One evening in late February 2011, designer John Galliano sat drunk and stoned on a sidewalk table of Cafe La Perle in Paris and directed a series of anti-Semitic insults at the occupants of an adjoining table.The incident was recorded and went viral.The couturier was immediately fired from Dior and generally ostracized.

I am not surprised to hear that women are overdiagnosed with mental illnesses (Are women really more mentally ill than men?As a psychologist, I'm not so sure, 8 March).In my 30s, I developed systemic lupus erythematosus, which went undiagnosed for several years, my symptoms wrongly diagnosed by (male) GPs as stress triggered by a high-powered job.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most commonly used talk therapy, psychotherapy.CBT is said to work miraculously for a lot of mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, restlessness, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and many more.CBT includes a lot of techniques and tools that address different aspects of many mental health issues and conditions.

Passive suicidal ideation is something that many of us experience, but few seriously talk about.Perhaps the thought has crossed your mind, "I wish I could just fall asleep and not wake up," or "I wish I could die, so I don't have to deal with this."These are examples of passive suicidal ideation and, while they are not active plans, and often focus on ways in which someone may die rather than actively cause their own death (such as thoughts of death through an accident or natural causes, rather than suicide), these thoughts can be not only worrying, but can lead to engaging in riskier behaviour without being conscious of it.

The family of Bruce Willis announced that the actor has frontotemporal dementia, known as FTD, a form of dementia that occurs most commonly when nerve cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain decrease in number.Mr. Willis, 67, was previously diagnosed with aphasia, which prompted him to retire from acting.

Image Credit...Brian Rea An A-student, a striving employee and a loyal friend, Terri Cheney is the sort of person who seems to have it all together.But, beneath her glowing facade, she faced the highs and lows of bipolar disorder.She kept her mental illness separated from her personal and professional lives, but she could not conceal this part of herself when it came to dating.

Have you ever suddenly zoned out in the middle of the day to a dreamy land?Sometimes we are at a place physically but mentally we are completely at a different place.It used to happen to me in school a lot, most of the time I'd be somewhere else mentally.This is called daydreaming.Your thoughts take you to a different world and you're completely invested in your thought-provoked dreamy land.

Nora Ephron's adage, Everything is copy, might be worth considering while enjoying the pair of one-act plays that make up Poetic Justice, a show at the Marsh San Francisco in January.Both plays by Lynne Kaufman look at what happens when famous writers use revealing, private moments and interactions with others to create transcendent literature.