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	<description>A blog exploring the positive aspects of bipolar disorder.</description>
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		<title>Evidence-Based Treatment for Bipolar Disorder: Is the Evidence Based on the Wrong Outcome?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My ankle was broken during a hockey game when I was sixteen. The pain was so intense that by the time I got to the hospital an hour later I couldn&#8217;t bear it any longer. If the doctor had given me a choice between suffering from the pain or cutting my leg off at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shocking Truth About Recovery From Bipolar Disorder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video It explains the three stages of bipolar disorder: Crisis, Managed, and Recovery. It reveals the results of an important recent study by the National Institute of Mental Health that you will find shocking. There are many who wish the study would remain buried, but as they say, &#8220;The cat is out of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar-advantage/2012/01/the-shocking-truth-about-recovery-from-bipolar-disorder/</link>
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		<title>Is Steve Jobs Bipolar?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my first book The Bipolar Advantage came out, I almost made a version of it replacing my name with Steve Jobs to send to him. The two of us looked so alike at the time that even Apple employees would come up to me and ask if I was a Steve when I dressed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar-advantage/2011/08/is-steve-jobs-bipolar/</link>
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		<title>We Need A Bipolar President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent months, discussions about the boom and bust cycles of our economy going back to the Great Depression have been the focus of many news stories. During boom cycles, too many of us experience periods of inflated feelings of power or delusions of grandeur, characterized by excessive risk taking and out of control spending. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar-advantage/2011/08/we-need-a-bipolar-president/</link>
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		<title>How A Simple Eye Exam Can Lead To Better Bipolar Assessments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many traits of being bipolar is the ability to see the world in a different way. Many might say it is a curse, but it can also be a gift when looked at from a positive perspective. This change in perspective can literally help you to see with greater clarity. From early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar-advantage/2011/07/how-a-simple-eye-exam-can-lead-to-better-bipolar-assessments/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Bipolar: You Don&#8217;t Know the Half of It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You don&#8217;t know the half of it&#8221; is a once-common phrase that is generally applied to negative things. It usually means that you don&#8217;t really know how bad it is. It is easy to see how bipolar people can use the phrase to describe how horrible bipolar disorder is to someone who does not experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is This Why Depressives Have Shorter Lives?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Depressed individuals have a shorter life expectancy than those without depression, in part because depressed patients are at risk of dying by suicide.1 However, we also have a higher rate of dying from other causes.2 Some researchers conclude that we may be more susceptible to medical conditions such as heart disease.3 I had an experience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar-advantage/2011/06/is-this-why-depressives-have-shorter-lives/</link>
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		<title>Driving While Bipolar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a demo of a video car racing game at the mall the other day and I became fascinated by the reactions of the people who were trying it out. I stayed around for a couple of hours and did an informal study of the phenomenon. I watched almost 100 people drive into walls [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar-advantage/2011/05/driving-while-bipolar/</link>
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		<title>The Black Swan of Bipolar and Depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a talk the other day for NAMI Santa Rosa about my next book and a woman remarked how different it is from my previous ones. I said that my first three were about me being the black swan. She asked if I was referencing the movie called Black Swan and I have not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar-advantage/2011/02/the-black-swan-of-bipolar-and-depression/</link>
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		<title>Bipolar Makes People Perfect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed it when I was first diagnosed, but have been watching the phenomenon ever since. I have seen it happen in so many people that it might be true in three quarters of the cases. What is even more amazing is how fast it happens. Bipolar may be the fastest path to perfection known [...]]]></description>
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