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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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Carlton Davis | July 19th, 2008 | 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 | 1 comment | 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 | 2 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 | 2 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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MHA’s 100th Anniversary Conference

Five hundred people attended Mental Health America’s 100th Anniversary Conference in Washington, D.C. June 10th through June 13, 2009. It was a great success, according to MHA staff. It was the largest conference ever for MHA, and it was a wonderful conference, but this important event concerning one of the biggest health issues in America [...]

June 24th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 8 comments | Continued
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NO MEDS MANIC

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 [...]

June 16th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 1 comment | Continued
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bipolar bare receives award

The National Indie Excellance Awards (NIEA) has honored “bipolar bare” as a finalist in the Memoir catogory for 2009.

May 11th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 2 comments | Continued
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Kirkus Discoveries review

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 [...]

April 30th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 8 comments | Continued
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Article defining types of Depression

I came across this article on the internet on depression, which I think gives some good basic information.
Copyright © 2009 Kevin Kielty
 
Many people will experience some form of depression in their lifetime. Depression can range anywhere from mild and short-term
to very severe and debilitating. If you feel yourself suffering from any type of depression, the [...]

April 16th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 7 comments | Continued
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My First Mad Man

 
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, [...]

April 9th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 12 comments | Continued
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Rave Review

bipolar bare gets first review and it’s a rave.  Southern editior and avid reader calls book “addictively disturbing” and “will leave readers wide-eyed and awestruck at the gruesomely enticing details. His life story is like nothing I’ve ever read, and the personal moments he shares cause a quiet discomfort as his openness and vulnerability hook [...]

March 23rd, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 5 comments | Continued
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bipolar bare pubished on Amazon.com

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 [...]

March 19th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 5 comments | Continued
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Ex-patient of Controversial Mental Hospital Speaks Out

Press Release
 
 
Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, target of government investigations for numerous failures in patient care, is prominently featured in the memoir of an ex-patient who was treated twice at the facility. Once, walking away, the patient returned, only to have the hospital’s famed program for drug addiction led by Dr. Drew Pinsky of [...]

March 18th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 5 comments | Continued
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The Gift of Bipolar Disorder

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, [...]

March 4th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 21 comments | Continued
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The Healing Power of Buddhism

            Dancer of innate compassion within the spacious expanse of nature
            You manifest as one who holds awareness of profound meanings
            Endowed with a vast range of flawless and holy qualities
            Glorious lama may your lotus feet stand firmly.
 
                                                Longevity Prayer – Namkha Drimed Rinpoche
 
Several months ago I attended a purification and healing ceremony conducted by [...]

February 12th, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 12 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

February 3rd, 2009 | Carlton Davis | 4 comments | Continued
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