Tag: research
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Mental health benefits of gardening (Part 3)
Slowing down helps me manage mania – gardening is one way I do this…
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Memory, subjectivity and bipolar research
George Mikes was a Hungarian-born journalist and humorist. Most well-known for his 1946 book “How to be an alien”. This is a comic commentary on the English and their relationship with foreigners. Sometime in the 1980s, I remember a piece he wrote for a Sunday newspaper in which he said (I paraphrase) “I had a…
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Taking part in bipolar research
In pre-Internet times, when first diagnosed, I read avidly about bipolar and my main source was Pendulum, the quarterly magazine of the Manic Depressive Fellowship (now Bipolar UK), which featured: Research comes in different guises and covers a range of hypotheses – medication, heredity, life, psychology and practical daily life – all things that can…