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…
Self Help
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…
Major Depression after Traumatic Brain Injury
I recently met a high school senior at a talk I gave on major depression disease (MDD) and bipolar disease (BPD). She had had a closed head injury from a…
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…
Untreated Schizophrenics are America’s Disappeared
Who are America's untreated schizophrenics? One percent of the American population have schizophrenia—3.25 million souls. Fifty percent are not aware they are sick (anosognosia). The conundrum is that this group…
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.…
Can Substance Abuse Cause Schizophrenia?
Can Substance Abuse Cause Schizophrenia? This has been and remains a controversial subject. Certainly the concept of “dual diagnosis” is well accepted. I am going to review several articles to…
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
Certainly since 1980 PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome has been considered a mental illness since it was added to the Diagnostic and Statical Manual volume III (DSM III). This was…
Teenage Suicide in America
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), the leading advocacy group for suicide awareness and prevention, has published some disturbing statistics regarding teenage suicide in America as of 2015. While…
Laura’s Law II
First some background on the law and where it stood between conception in 2002 to 2010. Then an update to 2015. The law is intended to allow for an alternative…
Paul on Lets Talk Radio
Paul Golden MD is interviewed by Atlanta's Let's Talk radios host Alecia Hill. Listen to Paul's story and his many years of dealing with bipolar disease while a practicing physician.…
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…
Nephrology
It occurred to me that I have been writing about the last four years about bipolar disorder. My memoir, Bipolar MD: My Life As a Physician with Bipolar Disorder, will…
Mindfulness
Mindfulness The concept of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was developed by Dr. Jon Kabal-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1979. This method is used as a…