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Orange glasses can be the solution for people with bipolar disorder

When people with bipolar disorder wore orange glasses that block out blue light, the manic periods passed much faster.

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Written by Ove Heradstveit

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Bipolar disorder is linked to creativity and leadership skills

Bipolar disorder seems to be linked to leadership skills. And if you are the sister or brother of someone who suffers from the disease, you have a greater chance than usual of becoming a boss. In addition, bipolar disorder has been shown to be associated with creativity. 

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Written by Ove Heradstveit

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A striking video about the importance of empathy

This film illustrates the difference between empathy and sympathy in a striking way. Empathy is empathy and is helpful to us when we are having a hard time. Sympathy is admittedly not negative, but does not involve emotional empathy, and is therefore not useful for those who have difficulty. 

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- Do not ask what is wrong with me, but what has happened to me

Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool, Peter Kinderman, wants radical changes in psychiatry and believes we are astray in our penchant for biologizing mental disorders.

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  1. Youth being pressured into suicide. - We have to take up the fight
  2. Bullying can lead to anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, psychosomatic disorders and suicidal thoughts
  3. Physical activity for better mental health
  4. Depression and feelings of hopelessness
  5. Self-help can be helpful even in severe depression
  6. Perspective: Depression might be just as common among men
  7. New study questions established perceptions of depression
  8. What is depression and what helps with depression?
  9. Documentary: The Truth About Depression
  10. The art of thinking helpful thoughts
  11. Self-help programs as good as regular treatment for depression
  12. Half of us are more vulnerable to depression
  13. Summarized research: - Strength training helps against depression
  14. - Many men are depressed without knowing it
  15. New study confirms brain changes in depressed people
  16. The best info film about depression?
  17. Overcome depression with these 500 words
  18. One technique shows a particularly good effect in the treatment of depression
  19. What is it like to have depression? Watch three famous people tell their story
  20. 7 common causes of depression
  21. Depressed people are not able to stress down
  22. Symptoms of depression
  23. Heritability plays the biggest role in the development of autism, according to a new study
  24. Opinion: - I am autistic - Not a "person with autism"
  25. Many women hide their autism so well that no one understands what they are struggling with
  26. The man behind three books about Asperger's was diagnosed as a 59-year-old
  27. A wonderful video about autism for children and young people
  28. Why does someone with autism so often look tired?
  29. A very special film about grief and autism
  30. Many people with autism find eye contact hard. This video says something about why
  31. Students with autism spectrum disorders. What the teacher can do
  32. The impossible family life with autism
  33. Asperger's Syndrome: 9 rules of thumb for parents and teachers
  34. Do you wear rubber boots to a party when it's raining?
  35. Taboo to live in a relationship with someone who has autism
  36. The characteristics of girls with Asperger's syndrome
  37. The child with Asperger's: Basic knowledge for parents, schools and kindergartens
  38. Autism Song. On living with autism
  39. Oxytycin may help children with autism
  40. Synaesthesia and autism: People with autism may have interconnected senses
  41. Brain scans can detect autism in infants
  42. Asperger's in the classroom: The sources of stress all teachers need to know about!
  43. Living with a person with Asperger's syndrome
  44. Study: Autism diagnoses are often made too late
  45. What do we know about autism and diet?
  46. Surviving Asperger's Syndrome
  47. Large study: Very good help for children with OCD through this form of therapy
  48. Dysmorphophobia: When the experience of one's own appearance becomes a mental disorder
  49. Anxiety in children in kindergarten. What can the kindergarten do?
  50. 10 tips for better coping with anxiety

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