Seattle Chapter of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Due to Covid19 precautionsAll our support group meetings are online. If you would like to join us, for security and privacy reasons we ask you to please request an invitation using the Big Green Button BELOW. The email with meeting links & passwords will be sent out periodically until Thursday Noon the day of the... Continue Reading →
I have been going through the website to prune dead links and discovered that a great presentation by Kelly Wilson was no longer available in our video recommendations. This was a disappointment. So I reached out to Kelly and he pointed me to a recent updated version of the presentation. If you missed the previous... Continue Reading →
At Psychology Today Sebastian Ocklenberg summarized a summary about what is currently known about the behavior known as "Crying." Rather than summarize a summary about a summary. Here's the link. Link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/202009/13-surprising-scientific-findings-about-crying
Interesting questions inspire interesting conversations and point to interesting resources. Here are a few that arose from our 9/24/2020 meeting. Substance Abuse Substance abuse, use, and addiction is an complex topic. But as it happens I recently watched an interesting video by Marc Lewis that discussed the neuroscience of addiction. This one: https://youtu.be/aOSD9rTVuWc Impulse management... Continue Reading →
Quite a few people showed up for our online meeting last night. Here are the follow up ideas, links, resources for the topics discussed by our facilitators. The video about finding meaning (from The School of Life) https://youtu.be/nu8d3iW2yxM F*ck Feelings The website for the authors of F*ck Feelings: (A review of their book is in... Continue Reading →
Book Recommendation as shared during the May 14th Online Meeting. This book now tops Duane's Book recommendations. See the review here.
DBSA Seattle 