Today, Psych Central (one of the oldest and most popular mental health and psychology resources online) announced its selection of Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2008. Included in the list is a bipolar blog I co-host with Candida Fink, MD called Bipolar Beat. Candida and I also co-authored Bipolar Disorder for Dummies and continue to co-host our original Bipolar Blog.

Granted, Psych Central, the organization that granted the award, also hosts our blog, but Bipolar Beat really is one of the top bipolar blogs on the Web. Candida and I have invested a great deal of time, energy, and (her) expertise in addressing topics that we feel are most relevant to the bipolar community – including topics nobody else seems to want to touch, including the over-diagnosis of childhood bipolar, weight gain often caused by medications to treat bipolar, and alternative & complementary treatments that the mainstream medical community doesn’t care to acknowledge.

We owe much of our success, however, to the many people with bipolar disorder and their loved ones who have posted their stories on our original blog, Bipolar Blog. The Post Your Bipolar Story has become one of the most popular features on our blog. I believe it contributed significantly to the opportunity we were given to host Bipolar Beat – Psych Central’s only bipolar blog.

I am pleased to announce that the most recent book I co-authored with Ralph R. Roberts, Foreclosure Investing For Dummies, has won the Gold Medal in the Real Estate (Buying, Investment, Management) category in Axiom’s First Business Book Awards contest:

The Axiom Business Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary business books and their creators, with the understanding that business people are a very well-read and informed segment of the population, eager to learn about great new books that will inspire and inform them, and help them improve their careers and businesses.

Nearly 400 entries were received in this inaugural year of our contest; the largest categories in terms of participation were Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Success/Motivation, in that order. The big winners among publishers are Portfolio/Penguin with 5 medals; Wiley with 4; and Free Press and Bloomberg with 3 medals apiece.

All books are a team project, and the book could not have achieved such success without the collaborative efforts of the editors, graphics artists, production crew, and marketing mavens at Wiley Publishing. We thank them, the many real estate professionals from around the country who contributed material to the State Foreclosure Rules & Regulations appendix, and to our readers, who inspired us to create this book.

Special thanks to Ralph R. Roberts, without whom I would never have considered writing a book about foreclosure investing.

We also congratulate the other winners in our category: Silver Medal Winner Flipping Confidential: The Secrets of Renovating Property for Profit in Any Market, by Kirsten Kemp (Wiley Publishing) and Bronze Medal Recipient Lawyers Are Liars: The Truth About Protecting Our Assets! by Mark J. Kohler (Life’s Plan Publishing).

For more about investing in foreclosures and flipping houses, visit GetFlipping.com.