bipolar illness

“There were all of these science books about bipolar illness and there were memoirs by people who had written about their illness, but there was no one who had been able to stitch all of it together in the way that she did,” said the writer Andrew Solomon, whose own approach to writing about his depression, in “The Noonday Demon,” was influenced by Jamison’s.

It figures: Forbes’s 2014 directorial debut, “Infinitely Polar Bear” — a semi-autobiographical story inspired by her father’s bipolar illness — treated mental illness as ukulele-infused dramedy.

Likewise, healthy sleep habits that foster physical homeostasis and more efficient immune system functioning also significantly reduce our risk for depression, anxiety and bipolar illness.

Adolescents living in the most intensely lit neighborhoods had a 19 percent increased risk for bipolar illness, and a 7 percent increased risk for depression.

None of the 985 participants had been diagnosed with depression, bipolar illness or an anxiety disorder before the start of the study.