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V is for (very) volatile volatile temperament and how to cope with it.
My husband is a control freak
A my-father clone with obsessive compulsive disorder and his
effect on his family
General Powell takes on attitudes about mental health and discusses his wife's depression
The following come from the OCD foundation page. They took them down, and added a completely different set of pages. What is OCD? Obsessive compulsive disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation's current information series
OCD and depression (from a site that SmithKline had that I can't find to link to it)
The following are good discussions of the psychological bugs that go with obsessive compulsive disorder:
Religious scrupulosity (a form of OCD) and Martin Luther
Panic attacks and depression (from a site that SmithKline had that I cannot find to link to it - a good thing I saved it!
depression and anxiety disorders
This nice discussion is something SmithKline had that I can no longer find in order to link to it; possibly they no longer
have it.
Depression: What you should know
National Mental
Health Association's campaign on clinical depression;
very good for a short discussion of depression; dispels
many common and dangerous myths.
"What does depression feel like?"
"What is depression (and what is it not?)"
Family research on mental illness
Life article on tracing family health history
My own notes on the genetics of
unipolar depression, anxiety
disorders, and schizophrenia I don't have anything in this
on the genetic "markers" or "suspect areas" that have been found
for manic depression; there are atleast half a dozen of them
along with a half dozen viable theories of what the disease is
and what causes it. Manic depression is pretty clearly a number
of diseases grouped together by common symptoms and forms of
brain damage. Manic depression is however the most
clearly and strongly genetic form of mental illness; identical
twins raised apart have a 70% chance of both having manic
depression or other, consistent, mood disorders given that one
twin has manic depression. That is also clear from the fact
that it traces right back in one of my mother's lines for
four hundred years, and out quite a number of other lines of
descent from the same group of families! No learned behavior
or outlook ever behaved this way.
These articles are from series of college counselling pamphlets.
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