I’ll provide some of the “old scripts” that I’ve lived with personally when I suffered from clinical depression in the 1990s. These have included: “If I were to disappear from the world today, no one would notice or even care. So what’s preventing me from turning my car off the side of the ramp.” “I [...]
Jane Chin, Ph.D.
A Window Between Worlds (AWBW) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded to use art as a healing tool to help victims of domestic violence find their “voice” so they can express what words cannot say. I will be using this donation thermometer for the next few months to track my progress in helping AWBW raise [...]
I’m active on Quora these days, since it’s become one of my favorite “thinking places” with a rich diversity of people and very bright and curious minds. There are various topics relating to depression and bipolar disorder on Quora that you may find interesting. I don’t answer all of them, but if I wrote an [...]
When I first set out to write this book, I thought I was writing a different book. I thought I would write about my journey through clinical depression, how I was helped by medication and psychotherapy, and specifically, how the strange dreams (often spiritual with animal themes) I was having played a large part in [...]
Here’s a great question asked on Quora: “If antidepressants are supposed to make you less depressed, why would they carry an increased suicide risk?” Supportive of the answer regarding an increased motivation that has been created by the antidepressant in the system, another supporting observation to the “activating the motivation necessary to carry out suicide [...]
On Quora there was a question about the effects of antidepressants on liver enzymes that metabolize/clear out medications, also known as cytochrome P450 (CYP450). These are the ones that cause you problems when you mix drugs, based on the effect of the drugs on its ability to work. Think of drugs as acting like “gas [...]
Most of the patient experience with bupropion (Wellbutrin, Zyban) has been an increase in libido, and this side effect has caused physicians to use this drug as a way to manage sexual dysfunction caused by serotonin-receptor based antidepressants (SSRI, SNRI). However, a reader wrote in about her experience with sexual dysfunction on bupropion. I’m looking [...]
