Blog Posts
Bipolar II and the Money Drain—Beware Snake Oil.
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum: I share it in response to the complicated question of can Bipolar II disorder be treated? Though no one has found a cure, Bipolar II can be successfully...
When Bipolar II Disorder Compounds Depression: A Survivor’s Account
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum: My most challenging struggles with Bipolar II disorder is the severity and unrelenting nature of the depression and how that is compounded by my Inner...
How Bipolar II Disorder Affects Family And Friends: Going Camping With Stan & Dalia
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum: Socializing is excruciating when in the grip of Bipolar II disorder—but to what degree should I isolate? Wouldn’t it negatively affect my kid’s experience?...
How Bipolar II disorder affects people who are suffering from it.
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum: There are many sub-illnesses and pathologies that accompany Bipolar II disorder. Here’s a story about one mine: I experience “excoriation,” a symptom of...
What Bipolar II Disorder Feels Like: Grappling With Basic Existence
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Brutality to Blessing on the Bipolar Spectrum. Simple, everyday conceptual tasks that we take for granted are nearly impossible for me now. I’m submerged in depression. I remember one day it takes...
My Ancestors’ Trauma Could Have Caused my Bipolar Brain (And how to heal it)
This Blows My Mind Do you ever get that feeling when a whole bunch of synapses in your brain connect in a new way? You have a breakthrough moment of understanding that changes everything? Thanks to Resmaa Menakem’s NYT groundbreaking bestseller My Grandmother’s Hands:...
5 Tips for Renewal
Those of us of a certain age remember the famed Habitrail, a colorful little maze and wheel for our pet mice to run around in. Looking back, I’m sure it was not that great for the mice. But they sure did move around. Just like we do everyday, spinning and spinning...
Covid’s Impact on Moms? Everywhere and Everything!
Covid has the entire globe in a headlock, choking everything. But Covid’s impact on moms, according to many new reports, is suffocating and threatens the wellbeing of women everywhere. Let’s face it, being a mom is hard enough. And a working mom, even harder. And...
Move to Georgia and Save Democracy
Remote work is all the rage these days. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, “I can work from anywhere right now.” Thank you, Covid-19. We are in some ways “free to move about the country…” but then again, not really because of lockdowns and closed countries...
Bipolar Lurks Under the Surface Threatening All
Bipolar Lurks Under the Surface Threatening All The first time bipolar almost killed me was long before I knew I had bipolar. Living with it, surviving it, would become one of the greatest challenges in my life as it is for millions of others every day. That time, way...
Despicable Mitch, The Root Cause, Remains
Donald Trump may soon get his eviction notice from the White House, but the real problem, Despicable Mitch McConnell, remains. And there is only one solution to solve the real reason why our Democracy is in tatters: Win BOTH Georgia Senate run-offs in January. Yes,...
Unplug for a day? Yes, it’s called “Shabbat”
I have some essential advice for you. It’s time to unplug. Really. Unplug for one day. Witness our lives of ever-expanding to-do lists, electronic messages, and devices. Enough to put any one of us on an exponentially accelerating trajectory of action until we’re...