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RG 1/7/2004
  Abstracts
of research studies relating to bipolar disorder. 5/1/08- Andrews
Depression Page. A thirty-three
year old man tells of his struggles with depression. 9/5/98
- Behavior Online. Bills itself
as gathering spot for mental health professionals and students. Can
participate in discussions. Link
to article New Findings About Internet Use and Depression.
3/4/01
- Bipolar
disorder -- detailed description of this illness including the
symptoms, possible causes. Unfortunately, no information on preferred
treatments, but still a very good introduction to this illness. 4/5/06
- About.com
spotlights celebrities who have suffered from bipolar. This same
site also offers information on diagnosis, symptoms, and treatments
of this illness.7/22/06
- Bipolar Support Organization. Packed with resources for those
seeking information on bipolar. Of special interest, see the personal
stories. Also good links to articles.
A weakness with this site is the difficulty reading small white
text on a blue background. And you cannot use your browser's text
size option to increase the text size. :Lots of good information,
but prepare for eye strain. 4/3/06
- DBSA
-- Depression Bipolar Support Alliance. This organization sponsors
free support groups in over a thousand locations around the Nation.
DBSA has an online
chat room, but keep in mind that it is not monitored -- anyone
can take part and say anything.
- DBSA support groups in Tampa
Bay, FL 4/3/06
- MDDA.
Manic Depressive & Depressive Association of Boston. Affiliated
chapter of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. Holds
weekly support meetings at McClean Hospital in Belmont, MA .Also
has small group support group meetings at McClean on Monday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday afternoons from 1:00 to 3:30 PM. Averages
over a hundred attendees at Wednesday evening's meeting. At Wednesday
evening's meeting, the large group is broken up into smaller interest
groups. One of these smaller groups, for example, devotes itself
to offering mutual support to relatives of bipolar sufferers.
Directions
to McClean Hospital. MDDA support groups also meet on Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 7 to 9 PM in the Yawkey Building, fourth floor,
suite 41, Schiff Conference Center, Room 4, Massachusetts General
Hospital in Boston.
If you're suffering from bipolar or are a friend or relative of
someone who is, the MDDA meetings at McClean can prove to be a
wonderful source of support, encouragement, and knowledge. You'll
see just how a model of mental health support groups, led by members
themselves who are not health care professionals, can be so helpful
to its members.
- Message
boards where bipolar sufferers share the details of their
illness and offer mutual support. Provided by AOL in partnership
with WebMD. Another
message board or newsgroup sponsored by AOL. You may need
an AOL account to get into this site. DailyStrength.org
also has a support group where you can exchange messages on bipolar.
1/8/08
- National
Institute of Mental Health offers an online booklet describing
the symptoms, possible causes, and treatment of bipolar disorder.4/3/06Questionnaire
to help determine if you are bipolar. 7/27/06
- Remedy Find has consumers (patients) rate various remedies for
bipolar. Bipolar
I. Bipolar
II. NOS
4/3/06
- 2006
published article "The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar
Disorder." The author cites studies comparing the results
of treating bipolar patients with prescription drugs and placebos.
Read responses
to this article. 1/8/08
- Articles
on treating bipolar without medication
- Actress
Margot Kidder tells about resorting to Orthomolecular
medicine. 1/8/08
- Researcher and author Gracelyn
Guyol tells about her efforts to heal depression and bipolar
without prescription drugs. 1/8/08
- A husband
whose bipolar wife committed suicide seeks a cure for the
illness that took his wife from him. 1/8/08
- Borderline personality disorder. The
Middle-Path, a peer support group in the Boston area. 6/5/06
- Children and psychotropic medications. Article
describing how parents over medicating a young child diagnosed with
bi-polar disorder may have led to the child's death. Spotlights the
question: Are we over medicating children with drugs created for adults
with mental illnesses? 3/30/07
- Depression Hurts.
Offers help for those suffering with depression. Includes advice on
how friends and family can be supportive. Gives the opportunity to
team up with a
partner for mutual support. 3/22/05
- Emotions Anonymous.
A support group for those with psychological problems, modeled after
the twelve step program of Alcoholic Anonymous. To find the closest
meeting in your area. 9/11/05
- Fast
food health chart. Gives you help in determining what products
in several fast food restaurants (McDonalds, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC
and more) are the better choices to help avoid stacking on the pounds.
10/30/05.
- First Person. On-line magazine
giving chance to people to share
their experiences with mental, emotional and spiritual health. Sharing
includes art, poetry, factual and fictional accounts. 6 /6/98.
- Florida
Behavioral Therapy located in Clearwater, Florida has an excellent
website giving valuable information on diagnosing and treating mental
illnesses. 11/3/06
- Florida's
Borderline Personality Disorder.
For a description
of BPD ...1/19/08
- Have-a-Heart. Someone
who has experienced depression offers advice on self-help. 7/7/01
- Health
Care.Com. Explains symptoms, causes and treatments of depression.
Discusses both psychotherapy and medication. 3/4/01
- Help
and Hope for OCD. Article co-authored by Bruce Hyman, Ph.D. 5/1/02
- History of the treatment of mental illness.
- A very controversial book, indeed. Just excerpts from a book that
seems fascinating to me. Coercion
as a Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry, by Thomas Ssasz.
2/12/08
- Danvers
State Insane Asylum in Danvers, Massachusetts, built in 1878
followed the therapeutic architectural design developed by Dr. Thomas
Story Kirkbride -- a design called Kirkbride
Plan. Kirkbride believed that the location and architecture
of buildings could have a positive therapeutic on patients. 5/17/06
- Dr.
Hans Pols in his course syllabus on the History of Psychiatry
gives an overview of treatment of the mentally ill from the 16th
century to modern times. 5/17/06
- History
of Psychiatry thirty-one-page lecture by Dr. Larry Merkel, published
on the website of the University of Virginia Health System. Includes
views of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Dr. Merkel, M.D. and Ph.D.
is assistant professor
in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia.
5/17/06
- Michigan
Daily on May 16, 2006 published an article giving much of the
history of Ypsilanti State Hospital, also opened in 1931. 5/17/06
- New
York Times article, published in 1999, reporting the history
of treatment at Rockland State Hospital, opened in 1931, in Orangeburg,
Rockland County. 5/17/06
- Internet Mental Health.
Encyclopedia of mental health information. Offers overview of mental
health problems and their treatment. Designed by Canadian psychiatrist
Dr. Phillip Long. 6/7/98
- McClean Hospital.
Affiliated with Harvard University, in Belmont, Massachusetts. "Home
to the nation's oldest and foremost research program in a psychiatric
hospital setting." 10/8/05
- Medication
information related to mental health problems. From Mental Health
Net. 3/22/01
- Mental
Health Infosource. Articles
cover such topics as talking to your kids about drugs, what to do
when anxiety strikes, when to suspect an elderly relative has Alzheimer’s.
12/11/97
- Metanoia
Guide to Internet Mental Health Services. Since it’s now possible
to get — and pay for — on line psychotherapy, it’s a good idea to
have reference to this site that claims to check out and publish the
credentials of Internet therapists. 3/4/01
- Music as a treatment for anxiety and depression.
- My
OCD Den. Personal story of a person suffering from OCD. 3/18/01
- NAMI -- National Alliance for
the Mentally Ill. With more than 220,000 members, NAMI is the nation's
largest organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons affected
by serious mental illness. Helpful to those suffering with mental
illness as well as their friends and family. Near where I live is
the Pinellas County, Florida
chapter in Clearwater. Meeting schedule is on first webpage. I
also spend part of the year in Massachusetts where there is also a
NAMI affiliate. Consider also
NAMI Greater Boston Consumer
Advocacy/Affiliate Network.
See how NAMI
graded States regarding their delivery of Health Care services.
I was especially interested in Florida
and Massachusetts.
6/29/06
- Northern
Initiation for Social Action. NISA. Personal stories of how people
have struggled with mental illness. Includes poetry as well as narratives.
6/28/06
- National Institute of Mental
Health. Aims mental health through biomedical research on mind,
brain, and behavior. 1/7/2004
- Mental Health Consumer.
Articles on mental disorders and help in locating treatment locations.
8/6/04
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. A variety of sites
related to OCD. 3/23/06
- Bio-Behavioral
Institute of Great Neck, Long Island, New York. Dr. Fugen
Neziroglu and Dr. Yaryura-Tobias associated with this Institute
are well known experts in the treatment of OCD.
- Florida. University of Florida.
OCD treatment center. A well know expert in the treatment of OCD
Wayne K. Goodman, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of
Psychiatry, is the OCD Program Director.
- JAMA
-- the Journal of the American Medical Association provides one
webpage giving basic information on OCD. Good for an overall view.
5/23/06
- John
Hopkins Department of Psychiatry includes promising new treatments
of OCD. 5/23/06
- NAMI
-- the National Association of Mental Illness gives information
on OCD medications, treatments, symptoms, possible causes. 5/23/06
- OCD-UK. A charitable organization
in England devotes itself to helping OCD sufferers. Includes screen
test, self-help strategies, and medical treatment. 5/23/06
- OCF -- Obsessive Compulsive
Foundation. If I had to choose the single best site for OCD information,
this would be it. You can get a list of treatment providers but
must first
register. Also provides
links to many OCD articles. 5/23/06
- Personal perspective
on OCD. The creator of this website tells his personal story of
his struggles with OCD. He also invites others to share their
OCD experiences on this site. 5/23/06.
- Time
Magazine article on OCD: "When Worry HiJacks the Brain."
Time issue August 13, 2007. "Having any blood relative with
ocd puts your risk of the disorder at 12%...four times as high
as that of US population as a whole." 8/6/07
- Parents
Anonymous. Support groups for parents wanting to develop better
parenting skills. Includes help for parents "at risk or involved
with Child Protective Services, domestic violence, homeless shelters,
correctional and/or substance abuse programs also attend." 9/11/05
- Parents, Families,
Friends of Lesbians and Gays. (PFLAG).
Support group. You can search for a chapter in
your area. 5/17/09
- RAND
Corporation gives a self-screening test to help determine if you
are suffering from depression. 5/25/01
- Recovery, Inc. Self-help
organization holding weekly meetings. For those suffering from anxiety,
depression, phobias, and similar problems. Founded by the late psychiatrist
Dr. Abraham Low.
- Stressbusting. Help
with recognizing and dealing with stress -- all the way from England.
6/19/01
- Support groups
in Tampa Bay, Florida area
2/21/10
- NAMI (National
Alliance on Mental Illness)
- DBSA (Depression
and Bipolar Support Alliance
- Morton
Plant Mease Hospital psychiatric intensive outpatient
services, including group therapy offered as often as five days
a week.
- Recovery,
Inc. -- Florida meetings including Clearwater, Tarpon Springs
and Hudson.
- University of Florida,
Department of Psychiatry. Special
department devoted to treatment of OCD; considered the best OCD
treatment program in the South East.9/29/06
- Vincent
House. Located in Pinellas Park, Florida. The mentally ill learn
job and social skills in a structured workshop environment. From the
Vincent House booklet: "Vincent house is a vocational and social
recovery program for adults living with a mental illness, based on
the International Center for Clubhouse Development (ICCD)."
- Yahoo
group Mental
Health Association of West Florida -- a group that offers understanding
and support to relatives and friends of those suffering from mental
illness. You can sign up to receive email messages from others in
the group. 1/19/08
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