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Living Life to the Full - a free, guided introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

KMH — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:53:16 -0800

A free website that helps you learn to diagnose and work through negative though patterns. Having seen so many posts on AskMeFi about depression, anxiety and related topics, it seemed almost a duty to share this. It's a free website (well, you have to register but it's anonymous and no cash changes hands) that's run by the health service here in the UK. It takes you through a course of small modules which help you to identify unhelpful thoughts and feelings and use simple forms to analyse and develop new ways of thinking using the well-known CBT method. I've often wanted to post this in an answer on AskMeFi, but realised it made more sense to post it once for everyone! CBT is not a magic wand but it can help in addition to other types of therapy. Even though the guy who introduces the modules on this website has a nice, calming voice, probably seeing a real life doctor and counsellor is best!

Creative mind, troubled soul

jbickers — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:32:42 -0800

"The arts are more dangerous [than other professions] because they require sensitivity to a large extent ... If you go too far you can pay a price -- you can be too sensitive to live in this world." Pondering the link between creativity and depression. Also: famous writers, composers, poets and artists with bipolar disorder.

Ibn Rushid Psychiatric Hospital

homunculus — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:32:45 -0800

Decline of an Iraqi Hospital: War Takes Toll on Baghdad Psychiatric Hospital. [Via Mind Hacks]

Ricky Williams on 'Oprah'

hydatius — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:11:39 -0800

Talking back to Prozac. Review article in The New York Review of Books, covering some issues concerning the diagnosis and treatment of depression.

"So I try to laugh about it / Cover it all up with lies"

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:46:18 -0800

Men get depression too. An excellent article about the hurdles men face in coming to terms with having the Black Dog. (Click "Print this" at the bottom for an easier to read one-page version; bonus links inside.)

bipolar?

konolia — Sun, 07 Mar 2004 14:07:29 -0800

Are You Bipolar? Mild bipolar disorder may be to this decade what depression was to the nineties, thanks to a new drug and an expanding definition. But when do ordinary peaks and valleys become pathological?

mathowie — Fri, 25 Feb 2000 05:24:05 -0800

When you reach an error page on this manic-depressive server's site, you get some very interesting results. This is not your typical 404, it's a whole lot more.