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Frustration

Frustration is the great trigger for madness. Just getting to start a blog after you haven’t done it in a while is enough to make you go screaming from the room. Now I am Ok. I have found the right place to click and I have calmed down enough to write about this subject, which [...]

Carlton Davis | February 3rd, 2009 | Continued

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Hello Readers!

If you read this blog I can guarantee that you?ll learn some new things, have some fun, make some friends, and maybe even get a free cookie.
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Carlton Davis | July 19th, 2008 | Continued

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Interview with David Oliver of Bipolar Central

Carl Bipolar Success Story 3-11-10  On February 26th, Carlton Davis was interviewed by David Oliver. The interview is attached.

March 11th, 2010 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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The Attack of the Inanimate Objects

 Inanimate objects attack me. Doors, tables, chairs, toilet seats, vacuum cleaners, keys, wallets, tools, cars, and computers – to name just a few of my enemies – have it out for me. They sneak up on me. They lurk in the shadows to obstruct my way. They refuse to cooperate. The small objects lose themselves [...]

March 8th, 2010 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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The bipolarbare has video on YouTube

 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       I have uploaded a segment of video from my talk “The bipolar coaster – riding the edge of madness with two minds” given February 17th, 2010 to the Temecula Valley California chapter of NAMI. The video snipet deals with the symptoms of bipolar disorder and the accompanying sense of otherness, or [...]

March 5th, 2010 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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Author on Blogtalkradio/Chris Teece Show

Carl Davis appeared again on Blogtalkradio. This time on the Chris Teece Show.  The link to the show is: http://blogtalkradio/chris-teece/2010/02/03/Authors-spotlight-bipolarbare-author-carltondavis

February 4th, 2010 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde

 
 
                                          The Strange Case of  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson , who supposedly wrote this novella under the influence of cocaine, strikes me as a perfect metaphor for the states I became under the influence of my magic potion, crack cocaine; except that  my Hyde was not male, but female. Carlotta appeared [...]

February 2nd, 2010 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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New Book Review

I received this ezine review which I thought was so right on the mark that I wanted to put it up on my wedsite.
Author, Carlton Davis has written a fascinating and revealing new book, bipolar bare: My Life’s Journey With Mental Disorder. Davis’ touching memoir comes from living for 40 years in the shadow of [...]

February 1st, 2010 | Carlton Davis | 2 comments | Continued
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The Two-minded Self

The Two-Minded Self                                                 
 This is an old article I wrote, which I have been thinking about lately.
 
“For that person must not suppose that a double minded man
  unstable in all his ways will receive anything from the lord.”
I came upon this passage in the Letter of James in the Bible and found it deeply [...]

January 6th, 2010 | Carlton Davis | 2 comments | Continued
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New Postings on Bipolar Bare

Fascinating Authors has posted the following items on its website.
Guest Blog: http://www.fascinatingauthors.com/blog/guest-blog-carl-davis-bipolar-bare/
Favorite Chapter: http://www.fascinatingauthors.com/blog/favorite-chapter-carlton-davis-bipolar-bare/
Author Interview: http://www.fascinatingauthors.com/interviews/carl-davis-bipolar-bare/
Author profile: http://www.fascinatingauthors.com/blog/author-profile-carl-davis-bipolar-bare/

December 30th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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Disappearing on Seroquel

 There are many drugs today advertised on TV for mental health issues: Cymbalta for depression, Abilify for Bipolar Disorder, and now Seroquel for Bipolar Depression. Have you seen the advertisement from AstraZeneca? People who are bipolar depressed are shown semi-dissolved into their backgrounds. A woman standing in front of a theatre marquee is half transparent [...]

December 24th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 4 comments | Continued
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Another new book review and interview

Bipolar Bare is reviewed and Carl Davis is interview by Frank Mundo of LA Book Examiner. Check it out at http://tinyurl.com/yakfyxd  Frank Mundo is a proflic reviewer and just recently completed a review of Leslie Caron’s book Thank Heaven and conducted an interview with the actress. Frank asked Leslie Caron one similar question to what [...]

December 6th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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Bipolar Disorder ain’t a joke

Sometimes I forget how serious an illness Bipolar Disorder is.  My life has been going well the past five years. No major attacks of mania. No racing thoughts. No grandiosity. No horrible depressions. No trips to the hospital for “tune-ups.” When I was first in recovery those “tune-up” visits were a regular occurrence when the [...]

December 5th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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New Interview for the bipolar bare

the bipolar bare was interviewed on November 3oth on Blog talk Radio. Check out the program at  http://tobtr.com/s/784159.

December 4th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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A Crop more valuable than Wheat?

Drug abuse prevention has failed miserably. Our attempts to stop the cultivation of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin are like trying to stop the occurrence of ants — impossible and improbable. The anti-drug abuse campaigns around the world have led only to the increased spread of drugs and their increased cultivation. In Afghanistan more land is  [...]

October 2nd, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 2 comments | Continued
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Stumbled upon a Stumbleupon Stigma builder

 
 
 
 
I stumbled upon a Stumbleupon Stigma builder. Apparently there is in Toyko, Japan a themed restaurant called “Alcatraz.” The theme as recorded by photographer Rob Sheridon in his tourist set of photographs is a mental hospital. This mental hospital looks a lot like a prison, like Alcatraz so to speak. I guess to the Japanese [...]

September 16th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 1 comment | Continued
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WID is Wonderful for the Wacky

WID (World Institute on Disability) www.wid.org  is a wonderful resource for the mentally disabled. If a person is disabled by a psychiatric condition WID is a place to know about for assistance in help maintaining and building assets. Their acting director stated in his presentation on the topic of wealth building to the NAMI National [...]

September 11th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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The Question I get asked a lot

The question I get asked a lot is: Does medication affect your creativity? The answer I give is: It did before I became an advocate for myself.  Many people with mental conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia don’t want to take medications because the drugs dampen their creativity. They tell me medication makes them feel [...]

September 4th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 4 comments | Continued
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Sour grapes on a bad day

I shall not go gently into that good night or sour grapes on a bad day                                         
 
 
I shall not go gently into that good night, but like Dylan Thomas, I shall shriek against the dying of the light. It has been five months since I published the book I worked on for five years, designed, [...]

September 4th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 4 comments | Continued
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Carl on Blogtalkradio Again

Carl was on blogtalkradio on Saturday August 29th at 4:00 pm Eastern Time and 1:00 pm Pacific Time talking with Host Simon Barrett, Defense Lawyer Mitch Stone, and Novelist Armando Aldazabar about Drugs, Death, and Destruction.  URL where you can hear the program is http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Simon-Barrett/2009/08/29/Drugs-Death-And-Destruction. A news report on the program can also be found [...]

August 30th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 1 comment | Continued
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Reviews and Interviews

Holy Guacamole! I have made a terrible oversite and forgotten to post two reviews received by Bipolar Bare and one interview by Simon Barrett on Blogger Newswork, plus comments on digg and go articles.  You can see these reviews and the interview at the following:
Book Review by Simon Barrett of Blogger News Network.  http://www.bloggernews.net/120728
A digg [...]

August 13th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 3 comments | Continued
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Art on Capitol Hill

 

 
I can’t always write on mental health, so here is a little something different.
 
When I went to Washington to Mental Health America’s 100th Anniversary Conference, I was part of a team of MHA members from Los Angeles who visited two California Congressmembers from the LA region: Congressmember Dreier, representing the 26th District, which includes such [...]

August 5th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 9 comments | Continued
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Live Your Life Well

MHA has launched a program called Live Your Life Well which they introduced at the their 100th anniversary conference. MHA’s research shows that mental health is a significant part of overall health and that mental health affects physical health. In addition the ability to handle stress well is a key indicator of mental health. The [...]

July 31st, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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Double Tragedies at NAMI Convention in San Francisco

 
 
Bill Babbitt stood at the podium and said the police told him he did the right thing when he turned in his brother Manny for the possible crime against a 78-year-old woman who died of a heart attack during an invasion of her home. The police officer said to Manny, a paranoid schizophrenic, “You are [...]

July 27th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 5 comments | Continued
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Carl Davis on you tube

Check out my links- on the right hand side of the page below blog roll - for the link to the You Tube page with my three minute interview for the Minds on Edge Video done by the Fred Friendly Seminars.

July 21st, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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PSYCHO DOUGHNUTS

Psycho Doughnuts was all out of the bipolar doughnut said the nice young red headed nurse who served me. My fantasy, which I had been planning all the way down from San Francisco, had been to buy a dozen of these doughnuts leave the store and begin pitching them again the door of this shop [...]

July 15th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 49 comments | Continued
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bipolar bare gets new book review

Midwest Book Review has givien “Bipolar Bare” five stars.
Bipolar disorder is an enigma to those who don’t have it. Author Carlton Davis brings readers into his world with “Bipolar Bare”, a memoir telling his long and storied history that ranges from a confused “troublemaker” child, to finding religion, to becoming a drug addict willing to [...]

July 14th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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