I believe that the use of lithium carbonate for treatment of bipolar disorder came about from a study that indicated that places where there was a shortage of lithium in the soil or water had high incidences of bipolar disorder. That would suggest that bipolar disorder is a physical illness with behavioral and psychological symptoms. Of course, maybe all "mental" illnesses are such.
Related: Stunning Photos Showing NYC Subway Cars Being Dumped Into the Ocean.
(Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
(Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
Madness in the New Poetry: "Is it only coincidence that poetry in the last two decades has come into the full uses of madness as of an instrument?"
ReplyDeleteThe Mad Poets Society: “McLean Hospital, in Massachusetts, was for years America's most literary mental institution, a place that Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and Anne Sexton knew well”
ReplyDeleteHat tip to A.M. Juster for the links.
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