This tme around we have Laura! Laura’s answers to our questions are the best and so real! We love it! Thank you for sharing your story and allowing us to do it
Q&A people! Love for you to share your story too!
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There is a mental health book on Kindle right now discussing a woman’s tale of mental illness. Here is more information:
P.s. This is totally late! I’ve been trying and trying to post this all weekend but to no avail! Please still go check out the book and support Mental Health!
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. To spread awareness and support, we are running a promotion beginning today, Wednesday May 20th, through 12 Midnight on Sunday, May 24th. The memoir, Forever Different, will be available for a free Kindle download and $1.00 per download will be donated to the International BiPolar Foundation.
Forever Different is the uncut, raw and gripping story of one woman’s personal life struggle with the extreme highs and lows of Bipolar I Disorder. This memoir is self published and the book was responsible for her journey to found her own publishing company, Christine F. Anderson Publishing & Media.
The free Kindle download is available here: Forever Different Kindle Edition
For more information about the author, please visit: ChristineFAnderson.com
For more information about Christine F. Anderson Publishing & Media, please visit: PublishWithCFA.com
To Learn More About BiPolar Disorder, please visit: IBPF.org
So, you have a Mental Illness?…Which One?
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) with secondary diagnoses of borderline personality (BPD) and obsessive personality disorders (OPD)
When you were diagnosed, what age where you? Where were you in your life?
Diagnosed with MDD at 21 by GP. I was in my last year of undergrad. Found out the BPD and OPD diagnoses a few months ago by going through the chart my psychiatrist keeps on me. I don’t know why he didn’t tell me. Right now, 29 and halfway through my Ph.D.
How do you cope/relax from your mental illness?
Blogging, drawing, journaling, medicating, sleeping and totally freaking out.
What are 3 words that you would describe how your illness makes you feel?
inadequate, exhausted, hopeless
If you could talk to world leaders about mental illness, what would be the one thing you discuss?
Funding and availability of mental health services. Wait times to get help are too long and when you finally do get help, you are cut off after a certain point whether you are better or not. Paying for weekly private care is too expensive. It’s not realistic for those with chronic, treatment-resistant mental illnesses that require a lifetime of care.
What is some advice you would give someone who is fighting mental illness?
Talk about it. People will be less shocked and understand it better the more we talk about it.
How can we keep in touch with you? (blog, Facebook, Twitter)
Blog: http://somberscribbler.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @SomberScribbler
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So, you have a Mental Illness?…Which One?
Not yet officially diagnosed, but PTSD
When you were diagnosed, what age where you? Where were you in your life?
I’m 40 years old, married with no children, unemployed and struggling.
How do you cope/relax from your mental illness?
Still learning but currently I do a lot of writing and try to find small things to do.
What are 3 words that you would describe how your illness makes you feel?
Alone, scared and worthless
If you could talk to world leaders about mental illness, what would be the one thing you discuss?
Stigmatism and how to defeat it.
What is some advice you would give someone who is fighting mental illness?
Don’t give up? Keep trying?
How can we keep in touch with you? (blog, Facebook, Twitter)
I blog at MyEvolvingHeartBlog.wordpress.com
and maintain a facebook page at facebook.com/MyEvolvingHeart
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This week is Alex from www.savingmommyblog.wordpress.com . Her blog is really helpful for people whom have a mental illness with kids. This is a great account of her life.
HEY ALEX!
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This week’s guest will be… me, OhTemp from Bipolar, Unemployed & Lost!I haven’t done one yet so I thought I might jump in line. I am really glad to be able to tell my story and the story of others with Mental Illness. We need to build a better system where we all can achieve maximum quality healthcare and understanding. Don’t give up on yourself and the ones you love.
Please send in your “You’re Just Like Me” Q&A! Love for you to share your story
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This week my guest blogger is Marci. Marci’s blog is all about ways to help you cope with your mental illness. She also blog challenges so you can get to know more about her. Love it!
Hey Marci! 🙂
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This week my guest blogger is Jcrowe79. Visit her AWESOME blog, and make her apart of our BP family!
Thanks JCROWE!
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This week my guest blogger Jacque from GODisms “She is a full-time Graphic Designer with 25 years in the business, Mother of 2 boys and have been married to my Hubs for 20 years this June. She blog on my godism.wordpress.com page. She is a Christian so my posts revolve around how God has led her to healing, and to become a better more relaxed person who is dealing with BP.”
Welcome Jacque, everyone!!
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This week my guest blogger is UNKNOWN. No really, I can not release any information about them because I don’t have any, but I still think its awesome that they wanted to share their story with us! Whether anonymous or not, each story is different and a much needed release in our sad covered up world of mental health. Please join me and welcoming them and tell them how brave they are to do this..
I wish more of us were like them…
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This week my guest blogger is Rebecca Moore. Rebecca is a blogger for the International Bipolar Foundation. She also serves on their Consumer Advisory Council and co-runs a Bipolar Parenting support group here in her area. She is also helping her local mental health brethren in her local hospital on their Behavioral Health Initiative Program.
She has also released her second book “Moorestorms Bipolar Warning Signs” It’s available only on kindle for .99 cents !!
YAY REBECCA!
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This week my guest blogger is Raeyn, the main person behind the great site The Bipolar Blogger Network! I love her because she so open about her illness on her blog and below. Its nice to see another one of us helping and healing others with their openness. HEY RAEYN!!…
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This week my guest blogger is S.K. Nicholls! She will be telling us about her experience with her mental illness
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