Knowledge Is Necessity

Let’s review the six DSM-5 bipolar report cards I issued: Episodes My first report card noted that the current DSM and its would-be rep...

I have now finished issuing my grades for the homework handed in by the DSM-5 Task Force concerning their proposed revisions to the depressi...

We’re all familiar with the metaphor of the elephant in the room with six blind men. Now how the elephant got in the room in the first place...

I should have commented on this much earlier. Better late than never ... A Jan 29 Newsweek cover story trumpeted, Why Antidepressants Don’...

What do you do between water volleyball games 2,800 feet up in the high desert? You get in a car with your buddies and head 2,500 feet down ...

My most recent blog post, Ruminating Depressions , queried whether there is a purpose to our suffering. The reason we are able to ask quest...

I’m taking time out from my DSM-5 Report Cards to comment on a thought-provoking article in the NY Times Magazine by author Jonah Lehrer, De...

Look what rain can do. I shot this manzanita bush on my walk in the mountains about a mile from my home. The high winter rainfall here bode...

Ten years ago, virtually everyone thought you had to be of voting age to qualify for a bipolar diagnosis. Thankfully that has changed. In a ...

Part I , Part II , and Part III to Grading Bipolar placed heavy emphasis on that largely unmapped middle ground where bipolar bleeds over i...