MENTAL ILLNESS. HELPING A BIPOLAR LEADER
This article should be compulsory reading for anyone positioned to lend a hand. Offering a bit of support will likely be welcomed. An article for the Harvard Business review by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries. [reposted in full below] Dated March 20, 2014 “I think we all know somebody like John (not his real name),…
Bipolar Startup Warriors
“So much Congrats to you for getting to this point. Tenacious doesnt even begin to describe it. Even the toughest folks fold it up by now. U are a warrior!”
My shrink’s better than yours
I knew my psychiatrist, Dr. Goldberg M.D. was fantastic at his job after more or less rescuing me from one of the darkest periods of my life. What I didn’t realize is that nearly everyone else in the bipolar-focused psych business feels likewise. After randomly finding several articles he penned from WebMd I decided to…
Anxiety & Depression Cripple so Many Founders
Mental Illness May Plague Entrepreneurs More Than Other People. But there are ways to cope and even power through and above for some folks. A bipolar brain is by nature difficult to manage. As are startups. Together the intricacies of manic depression can make life running a startup a particularly interesting challenge to say the…
