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Forward – Help For Mental Health and Addicts
A good friend of mine, Jonathan Ashby, founded a newsletter called Forward, and I’d like to help him spread the word as it’s a worthy cause:
FORWARD is a non-profit mental health news & information publication produced by FORWARD PUBLICATIONS, a social enterprise committed to helping recovering addicts, alcoholics and people with mental health challenges to cross the bridge to so-called normal living through hands-on communication education
Our readers are primarily people who think they may have a bipolar condition, those who know they have bipolar, their care givers, family members, friends, mental health professionals and anyone interested in finding out more
My aim is simply to reprint some of the articles and when Forward gets a website provide some bank links.
If you would like more information then contact me via my facebook page www.facebook.com/theCashBackKing
Rethinking Bipolar by Roger Smith
| I started writing about rethinking bipolar in the belief that I could persuade people that there is no need for a medical diagnosis called, Bipolar Disorder.
I was hoping that I could have the label removed from the front of my medical records such that I could have support and treatment for the troubles I really face, day after day.
Unfortunately the bipolar label is very sticky and no matter how many experts I meet with who agree that I do not have bipolar disorder, I cannot be unlabeled at this time.Why do I dislike the label so much? Right at this moment I most dislike being called bipolar because it is such a misleading term. Unless people know what the poles are then bipolar is a rubbish idea
With so many celebrities now accepting the bipolar label we might all hope that things will start to become clearer. Unfortunately this has is not happening. Celebrity experiences of bipolar have little in common with the majority of sufferers.
This is not the fault of the celebrities, as I know they struggle too. It is just that when you have plenty of money and support from friends and family it is a lot easier to cope and recover.
Most of us with the label struggle to find support or to afford private treatments.
“A third of people with bipolar have attempted suicide, and the suicide rate is nearly 20 times higher than normal. It is classed as a severe, enduring mental illness, and for many of my patients, it dogs their lives.
They take medication every day, they battle with the side effects of the drugs, and with the impact of their condition on their careers and personal lives. Can you imagine how a boss might react when told that someone needs weeks or even months to recover from a relapse, when it appeared to take Ms Zeta-Jones not much more than a long weekend?”
Max Pemberton writing in the Daily Telegraph 19th November 2012
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