Mood Swings but not "Manic"
        Bipolar II* --more than plain depression, but not delusional or psychotic      

The above link tells the full story; including these pages:   

• Exercise: Not the Usual Rap  
• Harvard's Bipolarity Index  
• Soft Bipolarity:  Soft Signs of Bipolar Disorder  
• Dark Therapy for Rapid Cycling and Mania
• Light and Darkness in Bipolar (recent update) 
• Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorder
• The Biology of Bipolar Disorder (recent update)
• Mood stabilizer List, by Evidence
• Weight Gain in Bipolar Treatment
• Bipolar "versus" Borderline  
• How to Talk with Doctors about Your Ideas
• Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder  
• Hope  
• Electronic Mood Charting; Printable Mood Chart

For  book version
 of this Website
    (not free, but an easier way to read 300 pages)
click on:  

Primary Care Providers' 
Resource Center

Tools and handouts for patients 
to make their care 
easier, faster, better; including:  

• FDA 2004-7 Warnings reviewed

• Antidepressant Controversies in Bipolar Disorder

• 9 "Antidepressants" That Are Not Antidepressants

• Light Therapies for Seasonal Affective Disorder

• Mixed States and Rapid Cycling: a new model that works better than the DSM

Nurse Practitioners' Conference 2007; slides 

Samaritan Physicians' CME 2008; slides

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Depression is Not a Moral Weakness. 
It Has a Biologic Basis.
Here are the Pictures to Prove It.

The Brain Chemistry of Mood Disorders

Brain Tours: 

• Mood

• Emotion and Memory

• Fear

• Hormone Control   

Hormones and Mood
    

Panic Disorder: 
Treatment without Medications 
    Therapy works better months after treatment

To order their  manual, start with just the client workbook (MAP-III), it may be all you need. Here is the link at Amazon. They're about $15.   It's not my manual or anything; I got nothin' to do with this.  

Useful Internet Resources

Do your own search for information in medical journals

Searching medications or interactions

Med's for low income folks

Social Anxiety: 
Treatment without Medications 

OCD: Don't settle for less than full treatment, including the OCD-specific psychotherapy