Practicing Mental Illness

The majority of people with bipolar disorder will be hospitalized during their lifetime, and as much as 62% of all direct healthcare ...

The research is pretty conclusive: people with bipolar disorder die earlier than their peer group’s average. But the data leaves out a lo...

What’s the average lifespan of someone with bipolar disorder? Now that I’m in my 50s, and now that I’ve lived with the diagnosis for near...

The camaraderie and competition of sport can make a person feel vital, included and productive - and improve a person's mental health...

I'd like to spend a few weeks writing about movement.  Exercise is crucial to good health, and it can help regulate moods, too.  I sp...

I write about and teach meditation with a very specific aim:  to help people manage mental illness.  It works. Still I make no other va...

Here's another excerpt from the book I'm working on: It happened to me sometimes when I went to Center City Philadelphia at ni...