The treatment for depression that made everything worse
Years treated as depression when the condition was something else. Why agitation after the medication needs to be taken to a diagnostic reassessment.
Holding it together at work while your life falls apart
Sustaining high performance in public while your private life falls apart has a cost. On the tightness in the chest that doesn't go away, and when to get evaluated.
Four treatments and she is still in the dark
When depression doesn't yield to several treatments, that has a name and is a specific clinical situation — one that calls for a different evaluation from the one that was done.
The whole house learns to walk on eggshells
The cost of living on permanent alert with someone who has bipolar disorder. A piece about the family member — who is also becoming ill.
Separation: deciding clearly when nothing is clear
Decisions about assets and about the children have to be made precisely when sleeping, concentrating and thinking have become difficult. On that point.
Going back to work after a severe depression
The first day back, the fear that people will notice, and the difference between being fit for work and being recovered. A piece about returning after time off.
He stopped taking it because he was finally well
Why improvement in bipolar disorder is often felt as a cure — and why the cycle starts again weeks later. A piece for the family.
The debts that turn up during the good phase
The financial impact of elevated phases in bipolar disorder: purchases, rash decisions, money that disappears. A piece for the family.
Six months on, and the feeling that it should have passed by now
Still hurting after months is neither weakness nor illness. On grief that doesn't follow the script — and the point at which an evaluation is worthwhile.
Depression is not sadness: when the body stops first
Tiredness that sleep doesn't fix, a heavy body, normal test results. Many people don't recognize themselves in the word depression because they don't feel sad.
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