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unusual facts about Manic-Depressive Illness



A Bad Brains Reunion Live from Maritime Hall

The album came under sharp criticism upon its release due to the lazy singing style of the usually manic and energetic H.R., who was accused of mailing in his performance at this reunion concert recorded live in 1999 at the Maritime Hall theater in San Francisco.

American Berserk

According to Adams, “the title, from Philip Roth, hints at the darker, manic edge of American life evoked in his novel, American Pastoral.

Around the Fur

The song "Headup" is used in its entirety in the film Manic starring Don Cheadle and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Barry Welsh is Coming

The manic Fishguard reporter focuses on the build-up to the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

Charlie Chuck

In the late 1980s, he turned to solo stand-up comedy as the surreally manic 'Charlie Chuck' and, in 1990, he was talent-spotted by the comedian Malcolm Hardee who arranged for him to appear on Jools Holland's The Happening, a Sky TV series produced by Noel Gay Television.

Faster

"Faster"/"P.C.P.", a double A-side single by Manic Street Preachers

Frederick K. Goodwin

With Kay Redfield Jamison, Goodwin wrote Manic-Depressive Illness, the first psychiatric text to win the "Best Medical Book" award from the Association of American Publishers and Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression.

Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis makes an appearance on the manic "Drunk Skitzo", and the ending of "Swim" includes excerpts of a Damon Wayans stand-up routine about his experience at a Fishbone concert.

I Go to Extremes

The St. Paul Pioneer Press believes that the song chronicles the highs and lows of a "manic-depressive".

At one point considered a song about a manic-depressive, the song was originally written as an apology to Joel's wife at the time, Christie Brinkley.

In the Best Interest of the Children

In the Best Interest of the Children is a fact-based TV film starring Sarah Jessica Parker who plays a woman struggling with manic-depression while raising her five children.

Jennifer Damiano

She remained in the cast until December 2007, when she began rehearsals for the role of Natalie, the angsty teenage daughter of a woman with manic-depression in the musical "Next To Normal".

John Cade

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO (18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering (in 1948) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder (then known as manic depression).

Lithia water

In 1949, psychiatrist John Cade discovered the anti-manic effects of lithium ions.

Manic D Press

Manic D Press books are distributed to the trade throughout the US by Consortium, Last Gasp, and wholesalers including Ingram and Baker & Taylor; in the UK and EU by Turnaround PSL; in Canada by Publishers Group Canada; and throughout the world by Perseus.

MU330

Formed by students of St. Louis University High School in 1988, MU330 played a self-described brand of music called "Psycho Ska", high energy ska punk marked by manic performances and humorous, often strange lyricism.

Nate Perry

He grew up in Northern California and has been based in Los Angeles since 1999 where he has performed, toured and recorded with several artists including CSS, Manic, Middle Class Rut, Jesse Spencer of the Fox show House, Fractional Importance, Stars Align, Art of Chaos, and Toadies guitarist Darrel Herbert.

Nicholas Jones

Nicky Wire (Nicholas Jones, born 1969), member of the Manic Street Preachers

Random Thoughts

Racing thoughts, rapid thought patterns that often occur in manic, hypomanic, or mixed episodes

Robert S. Corrington

Corrington has had bouts with bipolar disorder (manic-depressive), and he gives a personal account of this in his 2003 book Riding the Windhorse: Manic Depressive Disorder and the Quest for Wholeness, which contains case studies of Sri Ramakrishna and Sir Isaac Newton as well as his intellectual biography "My Passage from Panentheism to Pantheism."

Sheena Is a Parasite

The video starred Oscar nominee Samantha Morton as the song's manic, transmogrifying subject who whipped around like a banshee and spewed her intestines at the camera.

Suicide Alley

Most tellingly, the words 'Manic Street Preachers' are underlined on the front, and noticeably inferior / pixellated text is in evidence at the rear.

Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

The lyrics "You stole the Sun straight from my heart" is a quote from an earlier Manic Street Preachers hit of the same name on the album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours.


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