How can you help your Bipolar friend?

1. Never give up hopeLooking back, the first 10 years of my more than two decades of dealing with bipolar disorder were a seemingly insurmountable struggle, but my loved ones never gave up hope. Despite a situation that often created frustration and hopelessness, they never doubted my recovery. Today, they continue to instill that same […]

وماذا بعد انتحار روبين ولييم؟

  الرجل الذي أضحك الملايين في الشرق و الغرب على السواء و أدخل البسمة و السرور عليهم لم يجد من يفرح قلبه و يجعله يبتسم للحياة الدنيا فيأخذ القرار في غاية الصعوبة و الاستحالة وبكل اتلصميم للخلاص من حياته كان عبقريا بكل المقاييس ليس فقط في القدرة على التمثيل و تجسيد الشخصيات بل كان عنده […]

Borderline, Bipolar mood disorder or both

A full lecture in 2 parts presented by Dr. Adel Serag for Psychiatrists. Is it bipolar mood disorder or borderline personality or both? What are the different ways of differentiation and management     Lecture is given in 2 parts, discussing the illness monograph of a psychiatric patient with borderline traits and showed fully morbid […]

Black Box in Psychiatry- Henry Nassrallah

            Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder from dichotomy to continuum, clinical, genetic, Neuroimaging and pharmacotherapuetic overlap. Some hints of the lecture given in AAPA annual congress in Chicago, 2013. Professor Henry Nassrallah concluded that there is evidence to be a continuum rather than dichotomized.           A brief  […]