Comments on: ‘Bipolar Soldier: My Story’ by Tracy Mellor

By: Wilfred Blummer

Wilfred Blummer — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:12:40 +0000

I’m bipolar I. One of the guys that allucinate and go berserk. Since 50% of bipolars were abused as children. I suggest to check if their parents (one or two) had psichopathies . I had two members of The Dark Triad at home, my brother is bipolar and so do I. A careful research should be done. Dark triad members have all the tools to manipulate your mind, just think for a second what they will do with little kids. I wrote a book in Spanish language “Parents Psichopaths Children Bipolars” on Amazon.com Hope to translate it in English.

By: MALT Lymphoma Symptoms

MALT Lymphoma Symptoms — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:47:39 +0000

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By: Laura P. Schulman, MD, MA

Laura P. Schulman, MD, MA — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:09:26 +0000

It’s a tough row to hoe. I’m a physician who fell off the bipolar balance beam 10 years ago after almost 50 years of teetering. I lost everything. Now I live on disability and write. My new definition of success? Finish the game. Stay till the end of the movie called “my life.” You sound like you’re finding balance in your life now. It’s wonderful that you’re working with NAMI. You’ll enrich your life, and you might save others. Blessings to you!

By: Christine Wy

Christine Wy — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:56:54 +0000

You just made me cry. I have the “advantage” of being bipolar II, ergo not hallucinating, but I have to say that’s the only upshot. I could go on about what illness has done to me, but I won’t, this is your website. I, too, had to concede that work was not working. I am waiting to be heard before a judge, waiting desperately, but it does feel like a dead end. Kiss that old life, those ambitions goodbye! I’ve picked up art again after being too medicated to be creative for years. Undermedicated for bipolar, but I’ll exchange tears for Assemblage Art. Tough price, but it’s the only one that doesn’t feel like a dead end applying for disability.

By: Bonnie Rice

Bonnie Rice — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:44:27 +0000

My husband has bipolar 1 and he’s been out of work for over ten years and on disability for the past five. If you can convince the judge that although you may be perfectly capable of working on any given day, that may not be the case on enough days to keep a job. Our attorney used that and the fact that he hadn’t worked in so long that his skills were obsolete (he was a computer tech at one time) and he was definitely in no condition to update his skills until he was fully stable for an extended period of time.

This week he is driving a semi-truck with a company trainer. He took a class to do something he’s always wanted to do and next week he will be driving on his own and getting off social security disability. Bipolar is not a dead end. It’s just a stretch of rough road.

Good luck with the judge. Good luck with your life.