Manic-depression
The Attacks of the Black Brain
The attacks of the black brain start with losing something. Usually it is my keys or my wallet, but it could be anything misplaced or forgotten: a passport, a phone, a book or just a place I can’t find. I feel stupid and frustrated. I will tear up my household looking for the lost items, [...]
25May2010 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
I think I am better than I am
Grandiosity is a symptom of Bipolar Disorder. When manic I get very grandiose. I think I am better than I am. I liken myself to the great Leonardo Da Vinci. He like me was a writer, artist, and architect; and some say he was bipolar also. Maybe that is why he was so slow in [...]
1Apr2010 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
Bipolar Bare a finalist
Bipolar Bare is one of 18 finalists for three Montaigne Metals, a metal given to the most thought provoking works, from the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. To see the 18 finalist and more about the Eric Hoffer Awards and the Montaigne Medal come to these links:
www.hofferaward.com/HAmontaigneshortlist.html
www.hofferaward.com/HAmontaigne.html
The US Review of Books Review
“ What the public criticizes in you, cultivate it. It is you.” -Jean Cocteau
Bipolar Bare: My Life’s Journey with Mental Disorder by Carlton Davis, Booksurge
reviewed by Deborah Straw
“Carlotta has been many things in Carlton’s life: muse, nurse, showgirl, cocktail waitress, and whore. I am half of a package that’s normally male, but whose aspirations and desires [...]
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.
11Mar2010 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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 | 4 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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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
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
Thank you Sveinn for your positive feedback. The INPP conference has given me a lot to think about. I intend ...
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