Mental illness
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 [...]
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 | 9 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
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
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 | 6 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, [...]
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 [...]
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
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
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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