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Let's throw away the terms, depression and bipolar. Let's say the perfect mental storm, instead. ..
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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About Me
- John McManamy
- I am an award-winning author and mental health journalist. I have been writing about mood disorders since being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1999, ranging from a website, an email newsletter, a book, articles for HealthCentral, and this blog. More recently, I have been producing videos. Writing about my illness has played a very strong role in my healing and recovery. Writing allows me to come to terms with my past, gives meaning to my present, and gives me the courage to face the future with hope.
Thanks John. I appreciate this post. It is true. its a storm. it subsides and we think we are over it but sometimes it comes again. i've been struggling with depression in the last 18 months and recovered but recently been having a "mini-storm" shall we say, and happened to come across your site. its very informative and helpful. and helps me move on
ReplyDeletei've also started a blog last summer to recount my experience and alsot o confront my own thoughts and feelings. pls hv a read if you have time: nochnoch.com
thanks again
noch
Yes, a storm, an all encompassing raging ocean.
ReplyDeleteI came home from work today - crying inside, tired of being mentally battered by people and myself, and highly suicidal. About 5 weeks of deepening depression, and this week several nights of minimal sleep and escalating anger inside me. A perfect storm to be sure. I decided to search the internet for a good suicide cocktail - and found some interesting information I could have used. But while I was looking tonight I remembered this website and how positive I had felt reading and contributing to it. I hadn't bookmarked it (it is now) but I recalled an approximation of your name. I wanted to remind myself of what I have written here before. And to be re-inspired by your articles and the stories of other survivors - so that I could survive yet again.
ReplyDeleteThanks for giving people like me somewhere we can record our experiences, our losses, our wins. And that we probably have something wonderful ahead of us. I love the story about Abraham Lincoln.