Mental Illness
If you or someone you know suffers from depression, bipolar disorder, or the like, I urge you to review this Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. We must show kindness, to ourselves and others. This is an important first step toward ending the stigma that plagues those suffering with mental illness (and other types of illnesses). I…
Read MoreI recently sent my final draft of the manuscript of my memoir to my publisher. The book is broad – everything from my childhood to adult history of overcoming bipolar disorder. One of my objectives is that this book helps to remove the stigma of mental illness from both the patient and everyone else. When…
Read MoreThe stigma of mental illness must be eliminated as more and more of humankind knows more and more how to treat them – just like breast cancer, diabetes, and on and on. One by one, we have our strengths and weaknesses. Trying to accept others as they are, perhaps helping them with some form of…
Read MoreHere is an essay that I wrote for a writing class that I am taking at Loyola University. I hope you enjoy this glimpse into my personal life. Daddy and Me Daddy was the silent controller of our family, a circumstance that I only learned explicitly late in Mother’s life. She told me that he…
Read MoreI grew up in small towns in Mississippi and Georgia, got my accounting degrees at the University of Georgia, and lived in Atlanta for several years and Montgomery, Alabama for several months. In 1977, at the age of 32, I moved to New Orleans for health reasons. I remember my first taste. I walked into…
Read MoreI believe just about everyone suffers from some type of internalized stigma – some much more than others, very much a matter of degree and the source of the stigma. That does not mean that there aren’t many people with healthy self-esteem. But many of these people, sometime in their life, experienced internalized stigma. Overcoming…
Read MoreI have for some time written and spoken about my “internalized stigma.” That concept could also be applied to race and religion, for all sorts of people, from the caste system in India to poor people globally. It’s a matter of low self-esteem due to society’s view of you, or more pertinently, your own view…
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