Articles & Updates

Glenn Miller, M.D. is a weekly contributor to the Santa Barbara News-Press. His column, Healthy Mind – Healthy Future, can be found every Saturday on page A2. The topics for the column are often initiated by personal questions from the readership audience.

Bipolar (Manic-Depressive) Disorder Part 1

“A vivid imagination is awesome. A manic imagination is a curse.” ― Stanley Victor Paskavich Bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar affective disorder or manic-depressive disorder, is a condition in which people experience mood...

Bipolar (Manic-Depressive) Disorder Part 2

“My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.” - Patty Duke In Part 1 of this two-part series the reader was presented with an overview of bipolar disorder, its various subtypes and occurrence, and its wide-ranging patterns and symptoms. To briefly review, bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar...

Intermittent Explosive Disorder

"Temper’s the one thing you can’t get rid of by losing it." – Unknown Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) is a disorder of behavior characterized by repeated episodes of extreme anger, oftentimes to the point of violence, way out of proportion to the actual situation. It is formally categorized as an impulse control disorder (as...

Cutting Part 1

“You bleed just to know you’re alive.” -Unknown A dear friend, and long time reader of Healthy Mind – Healthy Future, wrote to me the other day sharing with me her own experience of helping “dear family friends whose daughter was recently hospitalized because she’d been cutting herself.” She...

Cutting Part 2

"I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real. The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting. Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything." – Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails In Part 1 of this two-part series the reader was presented with an overview of cutting behavior, its causes and...