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“Two Lovers”

 
It seems strange nowadays, but I do have difficulty even picking a film.  Maybe I just do not want to waste my time watching some garbage.  The major difficulty is, of course, in defining what garbage is.  I can only pass a judgment after having watched a movie.  Now, I try to laugh at myself [...]

Quote from “Michael Clayton”

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465538/quotes
[first lines]
 
Arthur Edens: Michael. Dear Michael. Of course it’s you, who else could they send, who else could be trusted? I… I know it’s a long way and you’re ready to go to work… all I’m saying is wait, just wait, just-just-just… please hear me out because this is not an episode, relapse, fuck-up, it’s…
 
I’m [...]

Today. SOS – I am falling apart. August 7, 2009.

I am totally overwhelmed.  Being on drugs does not help for sure.  Managing bipolar disorder means that the drugs combination is not unlike over – or undershooting, but it is never hitting the target.  I feel like I cannot wake up, I cannot move my body, I cannot concentrate, I cannot think and everything goes at [...]

Psychology and Media

Making Art of Madness
 
On Nov. 15, 1934, Virginia Woolf began her rewrite of a novel eventually titled “The Years.”  “Lord! Lord!” she noted in her diary, “10 pages a day for 90 days: three months … now, damnably disagreeable, as I see it will be – compacting the vast mass – I am using my [...]

Psychology – Bipolar Disorder (Manic – Depression)

The Turbulent Ups and Downs of Bipolar Disorder
 
From “Psychology. An Introduction. 8th edition” by Jerome Kagan and Julius Segal  (page 488)
 
When people have recurrent episodes of depression like the one just described, the disorder is called unipolar disorder.  But there is another severe affective disorder – known as bipolar disorder, and referred to in the [...]