Yeah...the message lives on, but I'm not going to PREACH today.
Reading THE UNQUIET MIND now...the author (Kay Redfield Jamison)...was a psychiatric "student" and has lots of KNOWLEDGE about bipolar. (She suffers from this ILLNESS, as well.) I no longer am suicidal (as in many years past), but in my HEAD I feel "at times" the desire to LEAVE everyone and be introverted in order to "spare" people and feel comfort myself with NO need to feel bad for being hard to "be around". However...
The good thing is that I'm seeing my MANIC side as "illness" instead of my "personality". Most people see my actions as the latter. This is true for many "mentally ill" people...WE ARE PEOPLE, though and ONE point of my blog is to SHOW the "people side" of us. We really can offer a loyal and true friendship IF given the chance. I know I am sometimes overwhelmed with how many "wonderful and true friends" (and even relatives, the hardest people to "get along with" sometimes) who DO stand by me and two of three sisters, as well as a brother. I feel loved and for this I am TRULY greatful! THANK YOU GOD!
We all deserve to feel like PEOPLE and to feel that we are LOVED. I want to make bipolar or any other mentally ILL people feel THIS acceptance and love, too!
SO...That's it for this time! I am surprised that NO ONE responded (NOT HERE, but through EMAIL) to my April Fools post. However my DEAR husband didn't notice that either because in scanning quickly at the top of the page it looks like just another "title" for the former POST. If you want to go check it out...it will be there forever and later in the archives! (Does anyone read those? I must admitt that I don't read the OLDIES very often and I only follow a FEW blogs...mostly my three daughter's blogs and a friend of my youngest daughter's...BUT still don't have much time for that! Even a HOMEMAKER and never "really employed" woman with grown "children" is a busy person...
Have a great week...I'll post again...You can count on that whether anyone reads or NOT!
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Just "ordered" this book - The Unquiet Mind - from Paperback Swap. I'll tell you what I think, when I get to it. I think I have at least ten books lined up in front of it (thanks to June and my own 'paperback swap').
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