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 [...]

 
 
                                          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 [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]