…So I’m diagnosed Bipolar. This isn’t a nightmare, at least not right now. It offers explanation of so much that has come before it – my attitude my ‘turns’, my sadness. I find myself reappraising the past… Repeated weekly visits to the psychologist help me begin to make some sense of the past and to examine and mange the myriad of thoughts in my …
Through the Looking Glass 4 – a result
…The Becks Questionnaire II business continues. What brings it alive are the questions that Dr. Black continues to ask me throughout the test until we arrive at, what for me, is an astonishing discovery… At some point Dr. Black tells me there is a store on Martha s Vineyard, a ritzy, gentrified island off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, that has …
Through the looking glass 2 – Meeting the Therapist
The last blog posted some three hours ago jumped over this one, much as thoughts are given to do in my head. This, in fact is a description of me meeting the therapist for the first time. My earnest apologies. Maestro, the music if you please. …My wife, caught up in a Maelstrom of hypomania, seeks and finds a Therapist. I am …
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: 2 – Depression Assessment
…I’m returning to do the test suggested by my therapist in our previous meeting – the Beck Depression Inventory II. Tremendous. Doing a test sounds like something you see in those silly magazines that tell you how good a lover you are are some such other rubbish, but apparently this test is rather serious. So I return that afternoon and Dr Black …
Through the door 1 – Therapy needed
A few years back and I am living in Paris with my Irish wife who works for a large International think-tank based in the city. I work in London and return to Paris on weekends via Eurostar. I have had many ‘episodes’ in the past, but for a while now I’ve been free of them. But I am working hard redesigning a national …