You have had in the US I believe your mid term elections and now the long grind starts towards the selection of a president and er the other guys. Over here in the UK we are starting our ‘well I guess we best get going then’ pre-election build up which is generating a vast amounts of indifference despite the recent …
Through the door: a bipolar therapy test?
By Dr Suzanne A Black and Stuart Jessiman ‘I’m off on one.’ I’m now explaining how I use poor metaphors to describe one of those days where I my mood goes up and down so rapidly I could generate electricity. I’ve described myself flying through a fantastic blue sky with the warmth of the sun on my back. I just feel good!!!! Energy abounds. …
Through the door: initial therapy consultation
By Dr Suzanne A Black and Stuart Jessiman Having passed through the door of the therapist’s lair there I am now seated facing the psychologist. She smiles. I smile. A simple success I suppose. She sat there dressed in a black dress and pearls, amid an array of beautiful old furniture with one bookshelf towering towards the tall ceiling, and an …
Digital noise – don’t you just love it?
Digital noise: phone chatter, loud music cross-talk, the incessant tip-tapping of keyboards, the beeps, bongs and rings of text messages and horrible mobiles ring tones that expose you to things like Wagner played on what sounds like a xylophone – I’m stuck on a bus in the middle of nowhere. It’s hell. Coping with noisy, busy places for many bipolars is often stressful. …
Mental health in the UK
A little flaw in the UK’s ‘socialist’ medical service is poor provision for mental health. We have some of the leading surgeons in the world, some of our A&E departments are regarded as world-beaters too. To my knowledge hardly any of the staff were trained in Cuba or Russia and none of them is related to Che Guevara. But don’t you think …
Life Lived as a Bipolar – Stuart Jessiman
Introducing myself, my name is Stuart Jessiman. I’m British, I come from London and I am Bipolar. I was diagnosed in Paris five years ago after seeing a Psychologist following a particularly hypo-manic period that nearly saw the collapse of my marriage and work. People react differently when diagnosed with bipolar. Strangely, this diagnosis far from shocking me gave me a quite profound sense …