I am at the post office with two boxes of heavy books. I can send them book rate, which is far cheaper than first class if there is no personal correspondence inside the box. “Is there a letter or any form of personal correspondence in any of these boxes?” the post office attendant behind the...

If a person went to his primary care physician and complained of symptoms of fatigue, guilt, worthlessness, irritability, insomnia, decreased appetite, loss of interest in regular activities, persistent sadness, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide, I am pretty sure he would leave that office with a diagnosis of Major Depression Disorder (MDD) and a prescription for...

Bestselling author Anna Quindlen explained somewhere that she stopped writing about her kids when they got to the double digits. By the time they reached 10, she felt that she needed to respect their privacy and keep their inmost thoughts and struggles out of print. I have tried to do that—concentrating on my own battles...

The biggest challenge professionals face in treating bipolar disorder is medical adherence, according to Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. At the Johns Hopkins 21st Annual Mood Disorders/Education Symposium, she discussed the problem of bipolar patients not...

Most people know a hoarder, someone who does a lot more collecting than discarding, who keeps so much junk (outdated catalogs, plastic forks, soy sauce from Chinese take-out) that stuff oozes into every room of a house, sometimes filling the room (or at least the showers) to the point that the room can no longer...