I am excited to announce that I am the second place winner of HealthCentral’s Live Bold, Live Now Photo Contest. The Live Bold contest is designed to show a person living well in spite of a health challenge. I have bipolar and anxiety disorders and I live bold every day. During the contest, over 1,150 [...]

Hey everybody! Have you heard my latest podcast interview with La Literati? If you haven’t already, check it out. In it we discuss my story of how I became a motivational speaker for learning how to live with mental health issues. I explain my personal background in how I discovered I have bipolar disorder and [...]

There are many ways to start a blog titled Pay Attention to the Man with Mental Illness! The title is rather self-explanatory, but also brings up other questions. How long should you pay attention? What subject should you pay attention to? Let’s clear this up, shall we? Pay Attention to ME, not my Mental Illness [...]

People living with mental illness share many common traits. In the advocacy world, we share many of them openly. We discuss the symptoms of the illness, the uncertainty, the fear, and we share ways that people with mental illness can receive better treatment, better services, more understanding, and have better outcomes. We have another common [...]

The Positive Elements of Bipolar Disorder (Yes, There are Positive Elements) I had my third episode of “bipolar florid mania” a year ago. Many people I know with Type I bipolar disorder have rapid onset. My own onset, however, is so slow, spanning as much as six months, that the changes from “normal” to hypomanic [...]