I’m making a vaguely hip-hop-y gesture with my arm, like, “Go Philip, go Philip, yeah … ” You kind of have to see it to understand. At any rate, it’s all because of Philip Dawdy’s rad appearance on Psychology Today’s website.
“The bipolar child is purely an American phenomenon”: An interview with Philip Dawdy
liz | 4:45 PM | BIG PHARMA
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Jesus fucken wept (is my favourite scottish proverb)!
I’m starting to praise the fact I’m living in a tiny European country most pharmaceutical sellers do not bother to take into account 8and it costs to translate all the manuals and adds, thx god!) I’ve found some information about children bipolar ephydemia at dr. Fink’s blog (http://www.finkshrink.com/blog/opinions/childhood-bipolar-who%e2%80%99s-funding-that-study.html ) but your excellent interview with mr. Dawdy is even scarier. Thankk you, Liz!
Dawdy’s research and presentations are impressive although on several issues his conclusions in my opinion are suspect and tainted. When confronted with differing opinions based upon the stated facts he sometimes comes off less than a journalistic professional.
Warmly,
Herb
VNSdepression.com
That’s cuz he’s not a journalistic professional. He is writing in an extremely biased and unobjective way about a brain disorder that he has. Anyone can read his blog and see that. He rants, and incites others to rant.
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