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  [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Many manic-depressive people refuse to take medication because it kills their highs and dulls their lows. The high of mania is a wonderful experience, but it tends to be forgotten that the exploration of the dark passages of the mind can be an equally memorable experience. In the high, you are full of energy and [...]

We received this review of bipolar bare from Kirkus Discoveries.
 A harrowing look at mental illness and drug addiction.
Bipolar disorder has earned significant media attention. The
glamour from movie stars and musicians who suffer from
the mental illness has rubbed off on the disease, giving some the idea that it’s a benign condition falling somewhere between moodiness [...]

 
My first contact with mental illness occurred in college. My roommate John, who was always one intense fellow, began to act very strangely. He stayed up for nights on end smoking cigarettes and writing. The cigarette butts would pile up in ashtrays into little mountains that flowed out around the retainers like the felled, bent, [...]

Today is a great day. Finally after five years this project is completed. The book is published and available on Amazon.com. The author thanks all who contributed to the project starting with: Virginia Tanzmann, who supported the author through all the moments of doubt and near abandonment;  Michael Levin, my literary guide, who provided his [...]

I have the gift of Bipolar Disorder; so it is believed did Leonardo DaVinci and Van Gogh, my mentors as artists and writers. For more than most of my life time, 20 years to be exact,  I didn’t know I had the illness, and just thought I was different from other people. I was crazy, wild, and had periods of severe depression, [...]

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 [...]