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We all realize in our journey through life and its many pitfalls our time is so limited that we should be thankful to see the morning light of a new day or a beautiful sunset at day’s closing. We need help in grasping what we can do as persons limited in many areas of health and especially in mental health. This is the fabric that keeps our country unique so we are not looked down on because of having to deal with this type of disability. Pain caused by physical disabilities is one problem that causes tension and stress and when we treat it with strong medications we contribute to our own downfall and with mental illness as off times the result. There are so many causes and too many different types of mental disorders that we could never name them all. If there were names for the ones recognized, we would still need to determine the degrees of mental disturbance. We just know that we need all the help we can possible get to deal with it effectively.
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Life is Over Rated, by Keith Anderson, LL.B., LL.M.
“Life is over rated.” I made that off the cuff comment one early morning in 1988 as I traveled to Cape Smokey, Nova Scotia, to learn how to ski, and over the years, it became a phrase, a joke, we would use at the law firm in Sydney, Nova Scotia, when something went wrong or a file went astray. Little did I know that in time, I would actually believe it.
There came a time in my life when I could see nothing promising ahead. Life had become a series of bad moments and bad days, leading to worse months and years. I just thought that was to be my life, and didn't recognize it was an actual illness.
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"One shoe fits all" strategy is not effective or efficient |
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I have been fighting a severe anxiety condition for most of my adult life. While I am finally on the road to recovery, this illness has stolen many years of my life. Fifteen years ago, I was working in retail, living independently and supporting myself financially. At 25 the symptoms of my anxiety disorder became uncontrollable and more severe, to the point where I was initially connected to the mental health system. I felt as if things quickly spiralled out of control, putting me in a place where I had isolated myself from others and struggled with agoraphobia, depression and thoughts of suicide.
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Becoming that proverbial squeaky wheel! |
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I saw the signs and chose to put them aside as I thought things would surely get better over time. They didn’t! Just a little over a year ago my own son, at the tender and vulnerable age of 14, was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. Getting the official diagnosis brought me both relief and distress. Relief because after witnessing since birth my son’s unique but worrisome ways of thinking and then have it escalate until he ultimately fell into a severe manic episode, the diagnosis made so much sense. Distress because now my son may be labelled with a “mental” problem for the remainder of his life. I also worry he will become ill again. The doctors told us “Alex” was likely predisposed to his illness because Bipolar Disorder runs in the family and its hereditary tendencies were bound to strike again. Alex was one of the not-so-lucky ones.
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