Healthy Heart Healthy Mind

CHAPTER 3 DIAGNOSIS I was diagnosed at 19 with Bipolar after a long string of successes in my life, I was a dancer, a university student and seemed like I had it all. How wrong I was at the time, I know now was my lesson to learn, I often call it my curse with a smirk! I was in hospital for three months and to get outside was an effort I almost was totally crippled with fear, but that year was the year of my awakening to what gifts I had to offer the world in terms of a healthy heart and mind. I may be one thing and that is different from most to say the very least. After that three month admission, I have been in and out of hospital four times, I am not going for the world record but I believe it has taught me a lot about life, forgiveness, love and courage. One thing I feel and still feel today is that doctors, psychiatrists, life coaches and the like are all there for a reason and they serve a purpose, yes that includes plastic surgeons as well! They are needed to make us beautiful if the need exists, this is my belief anyway, I love doctors and hate them at the same time and this is another curse of mine which is a constant thorn in my side! YOUR TIME TO SHINE I want to use this example as it is one of my all time favourite people and musicians, the world over I think as well as a boy from my home town Perth, David Helfcott, good boy from Subiaco wine bar, most people now know his story from the movie with Geoffrey Rush, Shine. He has a similar condition to mine, another great movie of similar sorts is the one with Russell Crow a Beautiful Mind, sorry if I keep quoting Australian actors movies but I am patriotic hey sue me for it, I really don’t mind. Anyway the point I would like to make here is this. David Helfcot is one guy who chose a life without medicine so I think at least I know my creative gifts don’t seem to flow as much if I am drugged to the eye balls, my poetry started while on medicines, I call them drugs as I see them as addictive as the hardest of drugs it is a big statement to make. A friend also once said to me, is food an addiction, sugar, television or computers, yes I would say all things can be addictive, I still am yet to kick my facebook addiction and try to get off it for a one week ban at times for mind training sake.