Tag: psychiatry
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Help for serious mental illness
Getting professional help for a diagnosed SMI (Serious Mental Illness) like bipolar should not be hard. I know my GP has a flag on my computer record to alert anyone accessing it that I am “special”. Not that special. This post relates recent experience of me being proactive in keeping myself well, trying to access…
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Nature, nurture, nonsense
It took more than a decade of drafting my bipolar memoir, attending life-writing classes and residentials then other events where I listened attentively to authors, publishers and literary agents as they shared their secrets of how to get published before I gave up. I switched allegiance, joined Twitter and set about promoting my stories in…