Blog: October 2011
Below are the archives for my blog in October 2011.
 | Going Public Today: Why I've Decided To Stop Hiding by Daniel Bader - 10-29-2011 A few weeks ago was Mental Illness Awareness Week, which gave me a lot to think about. For the most part, I've considered my bipolar disorder to be something essentially private, much like if I had asthma or some other disease. As a result, it didn... |
 | Bipolar Disorder and Skepticism: My Philosophical Journey by Daniel Bader - 10-22-2011 I've spent the last several years completing a doctorate in philosophy, and bipolar disorder has been in some ways a hindrance and in some ways a benefit. One way in which bipolar disorder has been a bit of both has been its tendency to push me towa... |
 | "Stigma": Reflections on Its Meaning and Use, Part I by Daniel Bader - 10-15-2011 This post is long, so I've decided to break it into two parts. This is the first part, while the second part is here. I've only really become active in what one might call the mental health community within the last couple of years. Like any mov... |
 | "Stigma": Reflections on Its Meaning and Use, Part II by Daniel Bader - 10-15-2011 In the first part of this blog post, I discussed what the problems were with the term "stigma". Although I have still some reservations about the limitations of the term and the way that the term is employed, there are still some very good reasons t... |
 | The FDA Versus the WMA: Why the Recent Cariprazine Trial Was Unethical by Daniel Bader - 10-08-2011 This week, Forest Laboratories and Gedeon Richter announced that they have had success in testing cariprazine, an antipsychotic, as a treatment for bipolar disorder. With a number of atypical antipsychotics becoming generic in the next decade, profi... |
 | What Does "Bipolar" Mean?: Five Surprising Uses From Across the Internet by Daniel Bader - 10-01-2011 In order to put together this site, I need to do a lot of online searches. Most of those searches involve searching for the term "bipolar". Along with information that I find useful for my daily news or my weekly blog, I also find something of a fl... |
