Topic: Manic depression, mania.
Hi
I have been living with Manic Depression for the past seventeen years. This is my first blog and I would like to use it to raise awareness and debate issues around this subject. I would be interested to hear from anyone with anything to add. I do not intend to cover too much in one go, but to regularly bring different aspects into the discussion. So no matter how worthy you feel or how trivial you think it may sound, please join in. At this point in my life I have learned to avoid extreme mania and cope with the depression to a large extent, but I have not managed to go back to work or find a place in this world. In fact I feel isolated and stigmatised. I would love to fit in somewhere, but where? In the public domain there are several well documented manic depressives who have managed to find their place. This is great, and I am glad that they have achieved this, but it only adds to my own frustration when I find this so hard.
Public discussion of MD is a good thing, but I am not sure that these successful media role models is very much help to people like me.
