Treatments for bipolar disorder | Kay Redfield Jamison
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- Опубліковано 21 січ 2014
- What medications and treatment is available to help treat bipolar disorder?
Kay Redfield Jamison is a clinical psychologist with a unique story. She is a world leader in the study of bipolar (manic-depressive) illness, a condition that she herself has had since adolescence.
As a highly regarded clinician with direct experience of the condition she treats, she has a rare and moving perspective on the debilitating nature of this psychiatric disorder and its seductive but disastrous highs, depressions and disordered thinking.
She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the USA and the author of 'An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness', which explores her initial ambivalence towards a life dependent on medication and her faith in the healing power of psychotherapy. She is also the coauthor of the standard medical textbook on bipolar disorder.
Kay Redfield Jamison spoke to a live audience at Wellcome Collection in December 2013. The event was part of the 'Exchanges at the Frontier' series, which hosts some of the biggest names in world science, and is a partnership between Wellcome Collection and BBC World Service.
The event was recorded and will be broadcast on BBC World Service in February 2014. After the broadcast date, you will be able to listen to the programme on BBC iPlayer. Visit the 'Exchanges at the Frontier' website for more information:
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Kay Jamison is a great helper for the BD community. Now, she was SO lucky to have that family and support AND to be diagnosed so early. I really envy her. I am extremely isolated, no family at all in the US (only my 11 year old daughter), no real friends who can support me, hard to find support groups, no money at all AND I was diagnosed a few months ago with BD 2, when I've actually suffered from it for the last 30 years(!) Back in my younger years, I was diagnosed with a Depression going on and off, because obviously, I was only consulting a therapist when I was severely depressed -or not consulting at all.
She gives voice to the people in the darkest dungeons. And although we may not make sense of all the voices we have a feeling we understand the connected words in phrases and loose connections. Like a rocket takes us into space, she takes us into the unknown places and mechanisms of the mind. It was her crazy and maybe innocent honesty that did this.
I like this doctor I read an unquiet mind
I disagree with the idea that every person who fits the bipolar category needs medicine...
Why?
Perhaps, since it can be over diagnosed and often is they way I see it. Though someone who’s chronically dysfunctional and has been diagnosed by a professional and it works (the medication) there’s no reason a single one of them should feel like medication is a bad thing for them and go off it reading something like this
Treatment: Believing in Jesus Christ and you'll be healed. You can laugh or you can try ;)))
No.
How reductionist.