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| Because I teach and... | Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential. Copy | ||
| Grief comes and goes,... | Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting. Copy | ||
| I am one of... | I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist. Copy | ||
| I think one thing... | I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering. Copy | ||
| In some cases, some... | In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression. Copy | ||
| Never once, during any... | Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me. Copy | ||
| Nothing good comes out... | Nothing good comes out of depression. Copy | ||
| One of things so... | One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you. Copy | ||
| People respond differently to... | People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting. Copy | ||
| Psychologists, for reasons of... | Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones. Copy | ||
| Several politicians and wives... | Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so. Copy | ||
| There are scientists all... | There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression. Copy | ||
| There is no common... | There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others. Copy | ||
| We expect well-informed treatment... | We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression. Copy | ||
| When I'm talking about... | When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it. Copy | ||
| When public figures remain... | When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives. Copy |
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