Bipolar Disorder is a chemical imbalance in the brain affecting over 1% of the population. It along with unipolar depression has been linked to creativity. Many famous people have been bipolar. In fact most of my historical heroes. Not only are there spectacular writers and poets, fabulous artists,and brilliant philosophers, comics, and entertainers. There are business tycoons like Ted Turner, and world Conquerors like Alexander the Great and Napoleon. The late Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe - a symbol of feminine beauty- was also bipolar. Now there is the popculture icon, Britney Spears.

Website by August, a baby boomer who has retired to the Black Belt of Alabama. I plan to work again beginning 2009. Now I enjoy taking computer courses at a community college. I became interested in psychology in the late 60's at Auburn University. Also in a Sociology course at Auburn, I got to visit a state women's prison, a state men's prison, and Bryce Hospital - the State Mental Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Although I do not have bipolar, I've had depression on and off since my late twenties. I manage it with one pill of Zoloft and one pill of Risperdal a day.