The Bipolar Disorder Moment

In this episode, I try something a little bit different. Instead of an interview, I talk about my own lived experience with losing a dream because of a bipolar disorder manic episode and how I managed to find a new dream.

My good friend Brian Pearson invited me on to his podcast, The Mystic Cave,  to discuss resiliency in the face of adversity and my yet to be published book, Brain Betrayal: The Allan They Never Met.

Brian is a talented blogger, musician, author and speaker and you can learn more about him, read his blog and get access to his other podcasts on his site, The Mystic Cave.

If you have had challenges finding and keeping employment because of your mental illness Prospect Human Services can help.  Lindsay Rawding, Prospect Peer Coordinator, talks about her role at Prospect and the services they provide. 

In this informative podcast interview, Dr. Andre Pickersgill talks about the high prevalence of mental health issues he sees in his family practice as well as the connection of mental health to chronic pain.

Lisa Thoreson is a registered social worker who uses Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) as part of her practice. In this podcast we talk about trauma and how ART can offer relief to people who suffer because they have experienced trauma in their lives. 

Beth Henry, owner of "Prairies to Peaks Consulting", discusses the training her company provides for individuals who want to do peer support work. She talks about why she started her company and the value of peer support.

In 2018, my good friend, Pastor Julia Kimmet, interviewed me at her church so that I could share my knowledge and experience with bipolar disorder with her congregation. This week, I am sharing the audio from that interview on my podcast.

I share how I started to get better from my first severe depressive episode as well as a story about my job as an interpreter for Japanese people going on horse back riding tours in my last reading from my yet to be published book, Brain Betrayal The Allan They Never Met.

If you are curious about the experience of psychosis from the perspective of someone experiencing it you may find today's reading from my yet to be published book interesting. I talk about my first experience with psychosis and how it devastated my life.