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- Finally Getting Divorced From The Person Who Abused Me And My Kids So She’s Had Me Charged With Assault
- My Biological Father Has Died… There Are No More Chances
- Well That Was An Entirely Too Interesting Few Months
- First Meeting With My Psychiatric-Nurse Was Also My Last | WTF Was That!?
- Music Friday: “Pull Your Head Up Off The Floor, Come Up Screaming…”
- From Mine To Yours, Happy Christmas & A Happy New Year
- Conversations With My Psychiatrist | It’s Been Fun
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- Another Conversation With My Psychotherapist… Now With Less Mom Talk
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- My Rheumatologist Appointment Went Terribly…
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NeuroLogica Blog- NASA Unveils New Moon Plans
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Science-Based Medicine- RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 10): An RFK Jr. ally tells us what’s coming next
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- RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 9): ProPublica reports, and a bump in the road to remaking ACIP
- Vaccines Work. Here’s Why We Care About Your Unvaccinated Child.
- ‘Start low, go slow’: The smart, safe approach to drug dosage in the elderly
- Liver Failure From Alternative Medicines
- Death Returns From Holiday
- Using alternative medicine to treat cancer, even alongside conventional therapies, is still a bad idea
skeptic insight- The Peptide Craze: Biohacking and Human Guinea Pigs
- What Media Consolidation Means for Our Reality
- Family Resemblance: Why Intelligent Extraterrestrials May Look Strangely Familiar
- Selling Fear and Half-Truths: The Latest 60 Minutes ‘Exposé’ on Havana Syndrome
- Remembering Robert Trivers
- Robert L. Trivers, Evolutionary Biologist Who Transformed the Science of Social Behavior, Dies at 83
- The Rise of Decorative Neuroscience
- Robert Trivers (1943–2026) Reflects on His Life and Work
- Confessions of a Former Chiropractor
- The Case for Free Speech Maximalism
Respectful Insolence- MAHA: The “we’re not antivax” mask has been dropped
- The Four Horseman of the Woo-pocalypse join President Trump to spread autism pseudoscience and quackery
- America’s Quack (now CMS Administrator) Dr. Oz goes authoritarian quack…again
- Dr. Pierre Kory promotes an old lie about vaccines and SIDS
- “Voices of the Vaccine-injured”: Old school antivax nonsense on steroids
- Antivaxxers will testify before a Senate committee…again
- Shameless self-promotion better late than never: Anti-Vax America
- RFK Jr. guts ACIP to pack it with antivaxxers
- Scott Adams vs. a cancer quack
- The soft eugenics of MAHA: RFK Jr. on autism and Dr. Oz on your patriotic duty to be healthy
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- How Depression Shrinks the Brain
- Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight
- How the productivity of Canada’s health care stacks up to the U.S.
- The Biologic Basis of Bipolar Disorder
- Mental Abuse Changes The Brain
- Surgically Mending A Broken Mind
- Is social media harming our mental health, researchers wonder?
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Patient Anonymous
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- How #TheGoodPlace Is Helping Me Face My Fear of Death
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- The Thawed Mother
- From calm to crisis – new BBC Ouch episode from me and Mark
- Mentally Interesting podcast – Episode 2: Shame
- Tell me your postnatal anxiety stories?
- Pregnant and mental in a pandemic. Not my best laid plan…
Don’t Drink & Don’t Die- So Intense, Though, is our Fear (Step 5 continued)
- March 14, 2026 (this day)
- Tolerance Part 2
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- January 22, 2026 (this day)
- AA Experience has Taught Us (Step 5 continued)
- January 2, 2026 (this day)
- To Thine Own Self Be True
- December 13, 2025 (this day)
- All of A.A’s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary (Step 5)
The Underground Bunker- GOP senator says the quiet part out loud: ICE at the polls in November
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- Patel hacked, but Q patriots sniff victory in the Middle East
- Australian cults inquiry notified of Scientology’s sneaky use of UK-Aussie connection
- Pillow Guy got served during interview at CPAC and it’s the funniest thing
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- White House posts and deletes mysterious announcement about something ‘launching soon’
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Neuroskeptic- Goodbye Discover
- The Erection of a Placebo
- The Invisibility of COVID-19
- Dialogue With Dreamers
- The Man Who Thought AIDS Was All In The Mind
- Are Effect Sizes in Psychology Meaningless?
- Brain Stimulation's Complex Emotional Effects
- A Curiously Written Coronavirus Paper
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Category Archives: Bipolar
Conversations With My Psychiatrist | It’s Been Fun
First the bad news: my psychiatrist is officially retired, and my psychotherapist is on an extended leave while she cares for her recently cancer-diagnosed husband. But I’m not being abandoned, that’s the good news. In October I start a new … Continue reading
Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Depression, Health, Manic Depression, Photography, Sleep
Tagged Bipolar, Photography, Psychiatry
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Another Conversation With My Psychotherapist… Now With Less Mom Talk
The overarching theme for my past year in psychotherapy was my relationship with my mother… which seems not a little cliché, but it was something that needed to happen. We only discussed my mother for a few minutes this time. … Continue reading
Posted in Appointment Day, Baby Quintin, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Family, Health, Little Victor, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Photography
Tagged Bipolar, Family, Fatherhood, Psychotherapy
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Conversations With My Psychiatrist | The End Is Nigh
I have two more appointments before my psychiatrist retires. This isn’t a surprise, she told me when we started three years ago that our relationship would be temporary. She also told me I wouldn’t be left out in the cold, … Continue reading
Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Health, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Photography, Psychiatry
Tagged Bipolar, Photography, Psychiatry
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Conversations With My Psychiatrist | Dealing With The Aftermath
My psychiatrist prescribed Trintellix for me in October of last year. One of my problems over the past ten years and more, has been sleeping. Basically I do too much of it, and I’m still tired all the time. The … Continue reading
Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, Family, Father, Health, Memories, Mother, Psychiatry
Tagged Bipolar, Family, Photography, Psychiatry
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The Day-To-Day Indignity Of Manic Depression
“Caring for yourself, looking after your physical health, just isn’t a priority for someone who constantly wants to die.” — ‘When You Spend 6570 Consecutive Days Wanting To Kill Yourself The Little Things Get Neglected… Like Dental Hygiene’: June 13, … Continue reading
My Bipolar Origin Story Because We Should All Have At Least One
Most of us have an origin story. The first time we heard a diagnosis that made sense, that explained and even justified our behaviour, that gave us something to fight against. Something that just made sense. Mine came when I … Continue reading












