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Many have written me about Bipolar Disorder. I found this GREAT ARTICLE AND MANY OTHER FEATURES ON THIS INTERNET PAGE!

I just came across this article that includes........ A VIDEO!

After a lifetime of suicidal fixations, former Miramichi, N.B., lawyer Peter O'Neill was diagnosed with bipolar disorder seven years ago. It has cost him almost everything except a big, loyal family that knows one rule: In case of emergency, search everywhere

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080620.wmhpeter21/BNStory/mentalhealth

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How can bipolar be a gift? I am assured that a lot of my energy was a catalyst to complete a double degree, run for the nomination for member of parliament at age 26, teach overseas as a University Professor, and most especially write poetry like the wind. I feel so intensely, possibly like no other. I often say, I would rather feel great devastation and sadness like I have, then nothing at all, for I know I am alive. I feel overwhelming happiness, hope and most especially empathy in a way that I have never experienced before the breakdown.

I have seen, heard and experienced things in a way that 99% of the population never will. Creative genius did not escape Edgar Alan Poe, Virginia Wolf, or Vincent Van Gogh and this truth reminds me that we are not doomed but indeed are given a gift. Perhaps a cursed gift, but a gift nonetheless. It may be a tireless battle for many at stages in their lives or every day, but luckily for me, I am renewed.

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PLEASE REACH OUT AND HELP A FRIEND...GET HELP.