Another Bipolar Blogger and Another Thing

I was fairly sure I couldn't be the only journalist blogging on mental health issues, and I am not. The other is Liz Spikol. You can find her at The Trouble With Spikol. Her blog is prettier than mine and I am jealous. My blog started two months before hers!

She, too, is a member of the bipolar club and, like me, is a long-term member. Other than the two of us, that's it. Most of the other mental health blogs out there seem to be born out of a Pharma PR agency or written by patients who lost perspective on the show a long time ago. Liz and I are both interested in personal struggle flapdoodle, but spend much of our time dealing with broader mental health issues. Journalistic sidenote: She's the managing editor of the Philadelphia Weekly. Like the paper I report for, it's a so-called alt-weekly and it's cool that someone from the same journalistic realm is doing this as well. Daily newspaper types--as much as I love them--are a bit too tight-assed for talking about delicate matters. We are different beasts, or bigger fools. She tells me she has quite the tale to tell of an encounter with the Pharma industry. So, um, start typing Liz. I want to read that shit.

Another thing: I am dead-dog-tired tonight and haven't been able to wrap my mind around anything complicated. I'll post more on the STEP-BD study when my brain returns. I did, however, read through the two studies I referenced yesterday. There is no reason to alter my initial conclusions.