Archive for Carlton Davis
Carlton Davis is a writer, artist, architect and bipolar. Welcome to his odyssey.
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 [...]
8Mar2010 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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
4Feb2010 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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/
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 [...]
24Dec2009 | Carlton Davis | 4 comments | Continued
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 [...]
6Dec2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
5Dec2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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.
4Dec2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
2Oct2009 | Carlton Davis | 2 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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 [...]
11Sep2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
4Sep2009 | Carlton Davis | 4 comments | Continued
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, [...]
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 [...]
30Aug2009 | Carlton Davis | 1 comment | Continued
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
31Jul2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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.
21Jul2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
15Jul2009 | Carlton Davis | 49 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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 [...]
24Jun2009 | Carlton Davis | 8 comments | Continued
Great quote. I really appreciate the information. 
[Primeval man] could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll ...
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Hi I just recently went on Seroquel. My doc started me off on 50mg a day for ...
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