Okay, I confess. The reason you don’t see me blogging so much anymore is that there are other things to write (like you, am poking at a book that will never see the light of day) and am super busy at work and find that this and putting out on the blog is really hard to do.
For me there's an optimal time to do this, write, and only so many of these, optimal hours, in the early morning. So be patient with me.
Once I learned that ancient Japanese fine artists only produced, only approached their brushes and ink for an hour or two a day. Perhaps they lacked caffeine, is my thinking.
Anyway. In the process of writing this thing I am forced to re-read (this is so painful, you have no idea) many of my earlier posts, and have to rewrite them, for it’s a shame to take them down when the essence is still there, but the medium, the writing, like I said, atrocious.
Nevertheless, the first and perhaps only post on Bipolar Disorder has changed somewhat, and includes an inspiring embedded YouTube video of Kay R Jamison, author of the classic book on the subject, An Unquiet Mind.
Apologies to those of you who read the first draft. Probably none of you did, though, because in 2006 I didn’t even know about things like, tags, the traffic signals we bloggers use to draw attention to ourselves. But like I said, maybe that’s for the best in this case.
Anyway, here’s the edited version of
Bipolar Disorder, Not Everyone Has it, Actually.
therapydoc
For me there's an optimal time to do this, write, and only so many of these, optimal hours, in the early morning. So be patient with me.
Once I learned that ancient Japanese fine artists only produced, only approached their brushes and ink for an hour or two a day. Perhaps they lacked caffeine, is my thinking.
Anyway. In the process of writing this thing I am forced to re-read (this is so painful, you have no idea) many of my earlier posts, and have to rewrite them, for it’s a shame to take them down when the essence is still there, but the medium, the writing, like I said, atrocious.
Nevertheless, the first and perhaps only post on Bipolar Disorder has changed somewhat, and includes an inspiring embedded YouTube video of Kay R Jamison, author of the classic book on the subject, An Unquiet Mind.
Apologies to those of you who read the first draft. Probably none of you did, though, because in 2006 I didn’t even know about things like, tags, the traffic signals we bloggers use to draw attention to ourselves. But like I said, maybe that’s for the best in this case.
Anyway, here’s the edited version of
Bipolar Disorder, Not Everyone Has it, Actually.
therapydoc
Comments
Best of luck on your book and I hope it does well!
I'm glad you're busy with a good thing rather than a bad thing.
As for the bipolar thing, I must have read that article years ago, but ignored it, cuz I had bipolar fo sho.
10 years later, with the elimination of all drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and psychiatric medication... things aren't easy, but I'm actually more emotionally stable.
Of course, that is also 10 years of emdr, dbt, cbt, 12-steps, healthy boundries (sometimes) and relationships (most times)...
so... who can really say?
I'm doing remarkably well, however, it has only been 6 months. I worry, that, as the message is often given, "people go off their meds, and go crazy" and that, i'm a ticking time bomb, and if or when an episode hits, it's going to be worse, because "everyone knows" getting off meds mean they don't work later.
Interesting balance, no?
Bad Cohen and I have been surprised at how many people with fibromyalgia are also being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and how the meds used to treat each problem can be detrimental to the other.
Carrie Fisher's "The Best Awful" is another amazing, brave book (I love her writing style, have since Postcards). I feel my ability to help clients with Bipolar Disorder has advanced considerably.
Good luck with your book. Very impressive undertaking.
The other reason, the one I didn't tell you all is that as the readership grows, so does the inability to push "publish."
Stage fright.
So there are all these drafts, never published, that need work before I publish them, but two years ago wouldn't have had the slightest (well maybe the slightest) hesitation to put out on the internet.
Regardless, congratulations - it's an impressive undertaking and I'm guessing you will find good success with it. Very excited for you!
What, this isn't about that?
Question about BiPolar - I'm not certain you work with children, but do you find that it is becoming increasingly common to diagnose children - young children- with BiPolar? I've known children as young as 3-4 years old who have been diagnosed. Thoughts?
Social Wkr24/7, the whole diagnosis thing is out of control. Anything to make people feel they know what's going on without taking a rational look at multiple systems, because, hey, that would be hard.