synced their Myspace account to Facebook http://lnk.ms/0WBg6
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synced their Myspace account to Twitter http://lnk.ms/0WBg6
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I actually met Melissa in NYC for a Tweet fest or some such thing a few years ago. A bunch of Twitter users, apparently pro level folks, all got together to discuss more of whatever they discussed on Twitter. I use Twitter somewhat and will do so more but I never got into it in any heavy fashion. I was a little out of my element at this gathering but everyone was cool.
Through a (now) bizarre cross linking situation in the real world, I got an invite to come down and hang. This was a fascinating night for me. A second wind was happening in my life. I hadn’t been to the Big Ville in many years.
I met Melissa in a cool club/bar/restaurant with about 40 other people. (I hadn’t set foot in a bar since my last drinking related offense about 4 years prior, so I was curious to test my resolve in the realm of sobriety. I was fine.)
I had a shot to be in this film when its focus was on a different topic. I was to be interviewed due to my book and my life/views. That focus changed and my shot went with it but that didn’t matter. The back story of how I was involved in the first place went to some spectacularly insane/interesting places and Melissa has had my interest ever since that night.
I will make a documentary of my own in the near future. I am actually in another production team’s documentary that should be finished in less than a year from now. I never wanted to make a documentary but I got the bug out of all this.
Have a peek at Melissa Pierce describing her film “Life in Perpetual Beta” and see what I saw. Listen closely to how she feels life is lived best. It’s worth considering. She’s simply a very interesting person. Worth knowing and fun to know, as well.
Melissa, Melissa Recorded on 8/21/10 chrispirillo on USTREAM. Technology
This is incredible to me but not unexpected. My mom has Fibromyalgia and a lighter case, mentally, of what I once had with bipolar. I’ve always felt that although Fibromyalgia is real, much of its existence is based on falsities. Just like my bipolar was.
The illnesses are VERY real. But they don’t always have to be. They are just a REACTION…a symptom themselves of some larger problem that is NOT physical, that is not a true problem as a doctor would see it. This is why doctors have so very little luck with helping people end problems like bipolar disorder and fibromyalgia.
On a side note, I highly suggest that you follow the blog that this story came from. Beyond Meds is an awesome and highly informative source of info.
New study: 85% of Big Pharma’s new drugs are ‘lemons’ and pose health risks to users http://bit.ly/cEFDLi via @AddToAny
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Thanks for hanging in there if you’ve been waiting for new posts. My schedule varies but is always full. I can’t get to everything I need to do or should do, as regularly as I’d like. I share this in case you’re a bipolar or depressed person who’s wondering if there’s a way out and a better life to be had beyond the ilness(es) you suffer. There is!
I began all of this back in 2006 as I was regaining my foothold on life. I was writing my book and deciding what to do next as fighting bipolar disorder was no longer the main point to my life. That wasover four years ago. I haven’t been bored, at all, for any reason, in four years. This is a way of life I’ve strived to achieve since…forever. Boredom is dangerous to me. But that is a whole other blog post.
When you’re sick, there often is nothing else besides your illness. Not to you. Oftentimes, not to your supporters either. There is only your symptom set and the enduring of same. This mindset becomes a way of life. But when you have your moments or periods of lucidity, calm, or weaker symptom intensity days, you wish for more. Maybe.
Some people have been so battered by the illness that they dare not hope for more. Understandable but in reading my words, I hope you change your mind. The rest of you, the ones who totally and desperately wish for more need to know you’re closer to having it than you realize. This blog, my videos on Youtube and elsewhere, and my main site all cover this.
As I do all I can to help you guys, help myself, and help my family and friends, I am forced to become more efficient and forced to safeguard my own sanity in the process. Stress is stress be it from a source of negativity or a source of goodness. I face overwhelming stress some days and much of it is from things I want to be doing or have in my life. It has required me to learn more to adapt and still be helpful to the rest of my world. It is an interesting ride.
I do a few different jobs to keep my show rolling and building. I have very large hopes and dreams. I have very large goals and mssions. Other people are entwined in the process and they need me to pull it all off as much for them as for myself.
I also have four kids and a wife…and a pool. That pool has been one of the biggest sources of pain and joy in my life. It requires a lot of my attention to keep the water sparkling. It is as much of a trial by fire as anything else I strive to accomplish and become proficient at doing. Too funny. I add that to display the fact that I have “regular” issues to deal with besides the more intense ones I handle for people who need my bipolar expertise.
One of my kids just got diagnosed with someting a bit hideous. She’s OK but won’t be if we don’t act fast. There is an endless array of other tasks, problems, and projects that demand my time and my best efforts. I don’t always do well. I am not always happy. I sometimes let the smallness in me rule the moment, instead of the bigger person. What I’m saying is I mistakes but I do my best, I adapt, I keep moving forward, and I remain sane. You can do this, as well.
Please visit my main site: http://www.bipolar-disorder-survivor.com , read all its pages, and leave comments by using the forms at the bottom of most pages. I want to know your questions and thoughts. And drop me a line here, too!
Thanks!
Ken
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Hello everyone!
Welcome to the beginning of my new blog! I will be adding extensive amounts of podcasts here, as well as videos and text. I’m going to discuss the topics that bring people to my main site. And I want to know what you want to know.
I want your questions and comments. I want your testimonial when my system helped. I want to know what you felt went wrong if it didn’t. I want your knowledge of systems other than mine that have helped you. I know I’m not the only game in town, by far. I wish to be a conduit of information. A storehouse. I am building something very large here.
I’ll be sharing what’s going on in my own life, as well. I thought you’d like to see what the day of a bipolar survivor looks like. I still have problems, same as everyone else. I still have some intermittent, lingering anxiety too. But that’s it. Nothing about me can be classified as “bipolar” any longer.
If you’ve read my book, heard me speak in public, on the radio, or on TV, you’ll understand why I have work left to do on myself. My life was too hard and too self-abusive for too many years. But I keep doing the work on myself. I deal with family, money, physical health issues, and other problems too. The thing is, when I was still sick, I dealt with nothing. I was all about being sick.
No more. Not for more than four years now. I deal with everything in a very effective manner. Doesn’t mean I always get it right or get it fixed right away but all around me prefer me the way I am to the way I was. So do I. ;-)
I still learn fascinating things about my body and mind. I still find new issues that test my resolve. I still discover things that can bring on anxiety. I have to be careful about what pills I accept from a doctor when fighting colds and infections or pain. In some cases, I have no idea what may cause a bad reaction in my mind and body. I seem to react differently to many drugs compared to most people. So I study. I learn. I chart my day. I evaluate. I argue. I confer. I do whatever it takes to stay both sane and highly functional. And it keeps on working.
I don’t always follow my own advice. I stumble or stray at times, as some of you probably do. But overall, I take very good care of myself within the parameters of my very hectic life. It takes an incredible amount of work to be online like I am and to achieve all that I do offline. And that’s important. I still can do it.
I can’t ever hold a job again, and I don’t care too. But it’s more than that. Jobs are a trigger for me. Even though I consider myself cured from bipolar, it is a managed cure. I am safe as long as I follow my own rules. Year after year, my life keeps getting more complex. The demands on my time get increasingly larger. And my goals for what I want to do for myself, my family, and the rest of you grow larger all the time.
I expect a lot from myself. Some of you expect a lot of me. I intend to let none of us down. This kind of thinking was hammered into me in the Marines and by my parents. I don’t know how else to be and I strive for excellence in whatever magnitude I can get it at each level of my life.
I have learned much about why doing what I’ve done is oftentimes impossible for many of you out there. Money and support are the two biggies. While I can’t do much about these things directly, I can do something to enact change in the system so that the money and support one day become available. And that’s becoming a favorite part of this experience for me. I like the big jobs. The system is broke and parts of it are waking up to the need for change. Not repair. Change. This is my time to shine. I can’t do well if the mission isn’t large enough. Just wouldn’t interest me otherwise.
OK. Thanks again for visiting. I’ll be adding piles of info here, so keep coming back and please be sure to surf the rest of http://www.bipolar-disorder-survivor.com for more ways to learn how to help yourself.
And please tell/ask me what more you’d like to know. I’ll tell it if I know it or I’ll find it for you if I don’t. I’ll even send you elsewhere if I locate what I feel is a better source of help for you than me. I don’t care. If I don’t do my utmost to help you, then what’s the point? I’m an all in or all out kind of guy. Your being on my site helps me in many ways. And one day, we may work together in some fashion.
Be well!
Ken
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