There will be a meeting on Monday, February 15 — President’s Day — at our usual time and place.

Here is the Winter 2010 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Antidepressants bad for older women?
• Antiepileptic drugs non-suicidal
• What’s wrong with positive thinking?
• Nature and nurture in mental illness
• Coping with side effects
• Fact checking

Here’s the video I mentioned at our last support group:

We will have our usual Monday night program all through the holidays.

See you there!

Thanks to everyone who came to this at some time.

We have decided to stop this program due to our inability to raise enough numbers to make it worthwhile.

The October 22, 2009 Meeting of Writing for People Living with Mood Disorders has been cancelled. The next meeting will take place on November 12 2009.

This does not affect our regular Monday night meeting.

Here is the Autumn 2009 newletter.

In this issue:

• Personality Disorders Misdiagnosed as Bipolar?
• Meditation may be an effective treatment for insomnia
• Triggers of Panic Attacks
• Is Depression an Evolutionary Adaptation?
• Bipolar_Blogs on Twitter
• New Procedure helps Treatment-Resistant Depression

Remember that the September 10 meeting of the Writing for People with Mood Disorders group has been cancelled. We will resume on 24 September 2009.

We will have a meeting on Labor Day at 7 PM at 23121 Plaza Pointe Dr, Laguna Hills, CA. See you then!

The group will meet on the following dates: July 23, August 13, August 27, September 24, October 8, October 22, November 12, and December 10.

It will not meet on September 10 (National Convention), November 26 (Thanksgiving) or December 24 (Christmas Eve).

Meeting time is at 6 p.m.

For directions, click on the tab above.