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By Paula Teggelove From this Thursday, as Victorians advance further into lockdown conditions, we will all have to wear face masks when we venture from home. It’s important that we don’t try, at the same time, to mask what we are feeling and experiencing as a result of Covid 19 and efforts to contain it. Many have lost their jobs or...
By Natalie-Mai Holmes,
Many of the popularly imagined stereotypes about people with bipolar disorder involve energy, creativity, instability, and euphoria. Extremes of mood are often recognised as mania and depression. Mania is when the initial humour on friends’ faces reflect your feelings of being highly creative, powerful and euphoric. Depression, to their looks of concern, and even fear, as you seem to lose...
Edited by Jill Wright,
Have you by any chance noticed, ever since you bought that oh-so-useful smartphone, that you've suddenly become surrounded by people whose ideas and conversation ... well ... people whose IQs and personality and all-round attractiveness are inferior to your own? Do you find relating to those people is a poor substitute for a fascinating session with your little electronic friend...
Edited by Jill Wright,
David Adam has a PhD in chemical engineering and works as a science writer and editor for Nature, but as he explains in a poignant confession in his former newspaper, The Guardian, he spent years tormented by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The article is an excerpt from Adam's book, The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a...