Parental Divorce of Children with Bipolar Disorder
I posed a question on a closed advocacy group for mental illness with about 5,000 members. I asked respondents their experience with divorce among couples of adult children with bipolar…
Bipolar Disease
Dolores O’Riordan – Accidental or Suicide
Dolores O’Riordan – Accidental or Suicide I have written many articles about notable artists, poets, writers and politicians from past and present with bipolar disease (BPD) or major depression disease…
William Styron – Major Depression Disease
William Styron - Major Depression Disease by Paul Golden William Styron’s book Darkness Visible – A Memoir of Madness, (1990, Vintage) has become a Third Testament for the afflicted…
Lithium for Bipolar I and II: Part Two
This is section is from my first book “An Insider’s View of Bipolar Disease.” It is fact base and referenced. Lithium is the primary drug used in the treatment of…
The History of Lithium: Part One
Lithium—Part One—History and Function The specific reason I wrote this article is to dispel a statement at the 2018 California NAMI meeting in Monterey, CA by a psychologist speaking to…
The Invisible Deaths: Suicides
The Invisible Deaths: Suicides Sadly, again we have to deal with suicides, this time in prominent people. Society took a double hit this last two weeks with the suicide deaths…
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was a veritable recluse in her home in Amherst the town of her birth. In 1870 a family friend, Thomas Higginson asked her if she ever desired to…
U.S. Presidents and Bipolar Disease (BPD) or Major Depression Disease (MDD)
U.S. Presidents and Bipolar Disease (BPD) or Major Depression Disease (MDD) It is tremendously difficult to search for reliable statistics about the incidence of BPD, MDD and Schizophrenia. After much…
My First Depression and My First Hypomania
My First Depression Psychotic Depression During my third year of medical school a foreboding of things to come occurred in January of 1973. To say I began to have anxiety…
Bipolar Psychosis and Unipolar Major Depression Disease
Bipolar psychosis during mania is common and yet not so much familiar to me until I started meeting more and more peers with BPD who have had or routinely have…
Prodrome of Schizophrenia
It is commonly accepted that schizophrenia and bipolar disease are diagnosed in the third decade of life. But, what about early symptoms as far back as grade school that may…
Paul Golden, MD Speaks; Depression & Bipolar Disorders
“Opening the Black Box on Mental Illness” Seminar, part I: Depression & Bipolar Disorders and a Personal Recovery Story from EL NIDO PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Before getting into the subject of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) a review of the light spectrum is in order. The light we see is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) going through space.…
Robert Lowell, Bipolar Disorder and Creativity
Robert Lowell, Bipolar Disorder and Creativity My first article regarding Abraham Lincoln based on the biography, Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald emphasized that Lincoln’s unipolar depression disorder allowed for genius…
Abraham Lincoln and Major Depression
Abraham Lincoln and Major Depression During the Civil War: For over fifty years historians and psychiatrists have accepted the fact that Abraham Lincoln had major depression disorder. Also indicative of…
My First Depression
My First Depression A foreboding of things to come occurred in the summer of 1973. I was 25 years old and in my third year of medical school. To say…
Laura’s Law
Laura’s Law (Also Called Assisted Outpatient Treatment or AOT) How do we prevent a seriously mentally ill (SMI) person from ending in the morass that is County mental facilities? The…
How Pets Help Bipolar Disease
How Pets Help Bipolar Disease Pets and Mindfulness I grew up in an apartment in Arlington, Virginia across the Potomac from D.C. Pets were not allowed and my father being…
What are Personality Disorders and are they Mental Illnesses?
What are Personality Disorders and are they Mental Illnesses? By virtue of their being called disorders I guess they are. I feel that they are only disorders if they interfere…
What is Rapid Cycling?
What is Rapid Cycling? Most people with bipolar disorder will have between 0.7 and 0.9 episodes of depression or mania per year lasting three to six months. Between episodes euthymia…
Paul Golden Interview with with Dr. Angela
Paul Golden Interview with with Dr. Angela Join Us - Scheduled for July 5 at 3PM Pacific Standard time. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/modernliving/2016/07/05/an-insiders-view-of-bipolar-disease
Police Encounters with the Mentally Ill
Police Encounters with the Mentally Ill When there are police encounters with the mentally ill, the new normal for those with mental illness during a crisis (defined as a danger…
Bipolar Dictionary
Bipolar Dictionary of Psychiatric Terms This is a bipolar dictionary of common psychiatric terms. Agoraphobia: one of the anxiety disorders characterized by feelings the environment to be unsafe, usually include…
How Does Bipolar Feel?
How Does Bipolar Feel? While having bipolar disease does not mean a person is always either feeling depressed (depressing) or feeling high (mania), people often ask, "How does bipolar feel?"…
Mental Health and Mass Shootings
Mental Health and Mass Shootings How is mental health related to the epidemic of mass shootings in recent years? Mass shooting, stabbing, clubbing, etc. is defined as victims of three…
How is Bipolar Diagnosed?
How is bipolar diagnosed? Bipolar disease is a clinical diagnosis made on the basis of a series of diagnostic criteria, psychiatric evaluation, self-questionnaires, mood charts and individual retrospective evaluation at…
Bipolar Disorder and Bipolar Depression Treatment
Bipolar Disorder and Bipolar Depression Treatment This article discusses the treatment of bipolar disorder, mania, hypomania and bipolar depression. The treatment of major depression is a topic for a separate…
Famous People with Bipolar Disease
Famous People with Bipolar Disease People with bipolar disease and major depression can take some solace in the highly intelligent, creative artists, leaders, philosophers, writers and politicians who have been…
Bipolar Mania
Bipolar Mania: Manic versus Enthusiastic For individuals who suffer with bipolar mania the onset of the first manic or hypomanic episode is very difficult to recognize. Sometimes even after multiple…
What is Bipolar?
What is Bipolar? Bipolar disease is a mood disorder and was previously referred to as manic-depressive disease. The mood disorders are major depression and bipolar disease. What is Bipolar Depression?…
What is Depression?
What is Depression? Depression versus the Blues—In a nutshell: What is the difference between major depression and the blues? Everyone feels blue or sad many times. These feelings are usually…