Thursday, January 11, 2007

Getting Started

I had a hard time finding a name for this blog because anything having to do with bipolar disorder, drug use, or anything else I find interesting is already taken. I picked Emil Kraepelin's name for the URL because for one thing it looks fun to pronounce (undoubtedly he was a Kraut, but is it the Old English Ae ligature as in "Crap-elin" or is like the French breakfast food "Crepe-e-lin"?) and for another he coined the term "manic depressive psychosis." In any event, no one else had taken the name. However, I did NOT take my 'nom de blog' from Kraepelin - I am in fact a Dr. (although I can't write scripts, so don't ask) and my last name does start with 'K' - hence Dr. K. That's all the time I have for now.