Hi,
How’s it going?
I hope you are doing well.
I’m not. I have a bad cough and sore throat. I actually have to drive 7 hours today to a meeting.
It’s so annoying that I got sick yesterday. I am pretty confident by tomorrow I will be feeling better.
Anyway it’s going to be a long boring drive : )
Okay, enough about me, let’s get to the news.
Oh one more thing. Tomorrow I am not sure what kind of internet access I will have so the daily email might be late. Sorry in advance if it is. Here is today’s news.
To read this week’s news visit:
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‘Hurry Down Sunshine’ author chronicles daughter’s experience with bipolar disorder
DO> Interesting article. Take a look
Caring comes with knowledge of mental illness
DO> Great article, what do you think?
Mom held in death of girl, 4, is released
DO> Shocking article. What do you think of this?
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Hi Dave- I haven’t had time to write you, but I’m grateful for the info. I am on Depakote & klonipin & I have been on all kinds of meds. They don’t control it. I knew something was wrong with me when at 17 yrs. old I was in a theatre & got so paranoid that I had to jump up & leave. They thought I was schitzophrenic at 1st. I am 50 now & have been hospitalized several times with a few suicide attemps. It sure hurts to get your stomach pumped!!My life has always been a mess. Still is. What to do? Even on my meds, I can stay up for days & make all these grand plans, then I crash. My son doesn’t believe you can have a chemical imbalance.Well, I know what it does to you,& there are no more meds that work like the Depakote & Klonopin for me. I’ve been on em” all!!
Dear David,
I’m not well at all today. Ihave more than a bad cough & sore throat. I’m bipolar & supporter to my best, lifelong friend, may only death part us.
What’s worse, he’s just out of 3week Pshyco thearapy and I feel just to fall over. Tomorrow’s his birthday, which he shared with his late brother who was brutally killed 8 years ago and never could get over it. As a 6year old child he witnessed his father wanting to kill his mother, but managed to stop the action. Since then (40 years ago) he has never managed to sleep for longer than 30minutes (not even with heaviest medication) without wakeing up in a sweat.
I’ve had it, finished, up, dry, can’t go on, got to stop’it.
No 20:10 South African time, Less tha 4 hrs to a new day that might never break !!!!!!!
Hope you get better soon.
“Caring comes with knowledge of mental illness.”
Bit of a sweeping statement, and a bit too loose for my liking! One can care but have no knowledge. One can care and have knowledge but not understand what it is s/he knows. Knowledge is one thing, understanding the knowledge is quite another. Reading a table of statistics is easy enough; interpreting them is another. Living with someone who has a mental illness gives a knowledge of mental illness but it isn’t necessarily (and probably isn’t usually!) an understanding of it. At least, not understanding of it from the perspective of the person with the mental illness. You can have all the facts and figures, know all about the medications and psychotherapy, know all the symptoms and the “warning signs” of an oncoming episode, but unless you know what goes on inside the head of someone with mental illness, or at least, be able to empathise such that you have some insight, then all the care in the World that you can give will never be enough.
Hence, if you understand my illness and me, then I accept your care. If you don’t, take your care elsewhere because it won’t help me manage the illness and could get in the way. So, if you are a Supporter, however much you care, you will never be fully effective unless you fully understand what it is you know!
Hi Dave
Yes well sometimes we have the knowledge and understanding of the mental illness. (Maybe not the full knowledge because nobody knows everything). One has a problem and then one has a cause of the problem and sometimes also a cause of the cause of the problem. Sometimes somebody hear from you without you knowing that you have actually talked to that person. I don’t think I did talk to that person but on the other hand maybe I did without knowing it. Sometimes we see faces and don’t know what they mean. Maybe it’s just faces and doesn’t mean anything. These faces do not talk to us so we can’t ask them what they mean and even if we do they don’t answer back but just stare in front of them.
Hope you have a great day.
Hi David-
Sorry you’re not feeling well. I had the same thing approximately one month ago. Someone pointed me in the direction of a product called Airborne. It is an herbal concoction that builds up your immune system. Whenever you’re going to be in a crowded area, planes, lectures this would help you to ward them off. It can also help you to get better faster as well. Just an F.Y.I. Good luck with that cold and Thank You for all the daily communication. It’s nice to know there are some people out there that understands the roll a coaster ride those of us have being bipolar.
Sincerely, Pamela