Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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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.
I do. I listen to you. Frankly, I bet many psychologists and psychiatrists listen to you too, including the ones in the workgroup. I think you have brilliantly and rather hilariously put your finger on exactly what parts of DSM-IV need to be fixed, and won't be. Also, WHY they won't be. I think it's true and important that this is not the fault of the good people who are trying to do the hard digging here, but a reflection of limitations in our understanding and our science, to say nothing of a process governed by intensely conflicting interests. Well-said, and thanks for saying it.
ReplyDeleteMy comment? Thank God I found your site. The end.
ReplyDeleteI need to give this article to my psychiatrist. I can't tell you how often he's told me that what I experience is not related to my disorder.
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