TEDxZurich 2016
Christian Wehbe
TEDxZurich 2016
The Wrong Pill Can Play With Your Mind
By JAIME LOWESEPT. 30, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/opinion/sunday/bipolar-medication-depakote-lithium-.html
WHEN I was 16, I was admitted to U.C.L.A.’s neuropsychiatric institute. I’d been suffering from increasing paranoia (I thought war was imminent; I thought I would be called into battle) and lack of sleep (I paced our staircase into the early hours of morning). Most profoundly, I thought my parents were actually secret agents, …
lithium
Tegretol
Depakote D.R. (for delayed release)
Depakote E.R. (for extended release).
One study led by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found that 58 percent of people who were prescribed a psychotropic medication within the study group of roughly five million had no psychiatric diagnosis.
medication education
Laura Bain speaks about living with Bipolar Type II Disorder, the trials and tribulations, but also how it informs her vibrant character and wonderful sense of identity.
“Laura is a very passionate person and as a 5th year Biology student she is a lover of Science. She is an avid cyclist, a teacher, an artist and a silly dancer. She is a windsurf instructor, the former vice commodore of the UBC sailing club, and a summer landscaper. She is a friend, roommate, a well-loved daughter and baby sister to three big brothers. She is also an auntie to the cutest little niece ever. Oh, there is one more thing, she is living with Bipolar Disorder.”
Tracked my mood/feelings (higher energy/lower energy; transition days) on my calendar: arrows
persistent upward arrows for about two weeks
cognitive therapy
Kaity is a writer, a daughter, friend, etc. Among other things, she is a survivor of mental illness. Listen to her talk about her experiences, the stigma surrounding the word “mental illness,” and learning to live and rise above her disorders.
The Benefits of Restlesness
2005
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675356
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds
Bipolar disorder
2010
http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/medicalpubs/diseasemanagement/psychiatry-psychology/bipolar-disorder
Bipolar disorder
http://www.drnnarang.com/bipolar_disorder.html
http://psycheducation.org/diagnosis/mixed-states/rapid-cycling-and-mixed-states-as-waves
http://psycheducation.org/diagnosis
One way to understand these states is called “mixed states”. Bipolar disorder is an unfortunate name, as it implies a North/South Pole experience. A better picture looks like this graph …
Both manic symptoms and depressive symptoms at the same time? Sure enough. Not intuitive, if you think North/South pole. But these symptoms can vary independently or occur together
2011
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/bipolar-disorder/treatment-resistant-bipolar-disorder
Mixed states in bipolar disorder
2015
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40263-015-0275-6
Manic with mixed features
> 2013
http://www.northwoodsclinic.com/page5
Recognition and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
02/28/2005
http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/499656
08/09/2002
http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/439472_5
2004
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1516-44462004000700003&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en
2000
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F0-306-47521-9_3
Normal and abnormal mood states
http://www.josephbryer.com/8.html
Psychotic and nonpsychotic bipolar mixed states
1993
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02191568