I received five phone calls from my Grandma yesterday. She was having a very bad day. She has recently moved house and downsized to a small retirement unit. She decided yesterday that all of her things had been stolen and she had been lied to. She was adamant about seeking legal advice. She even threatened to try to kill herself again if she couldn’t get her beautiful possessions back. Receiving

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Through working on the Inspired Recovery project and reading widely about mental health, I have began the long education process of learning about mental illness. It appears that there are still many facets of this complex issue that are still to be explored in their entirety. Many people I have spoken to have admitted a tendency to turn to substance abuse or “self-medicating” in an attempt to

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Lisa Mora, a contributor to Inspired Recovery (www.inspiredrecovery.com) and author of I am Lisa; I am not Bipolar shares what I believe to be a truly amazing insight:“I understand what living with the diagnosis means. Note that I say “living with the diagnosis,” not “living with Bipolar disorder,” says Lisa “Believe me, there is a difference.” “One implies living in a permanent state of disease

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My Grandma suffers from mental illness. She has schizo-effective disorder and border-line personality disorder.During my childhood this did not factor into the relationship I had with my Grandma. We spent a lot of time together and she would read me story after story for hours on end. She made me cubby houses out of sheets which took up her entire living room and never once complained about the

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Hi all,My name is K and I work as a writing assistant on a book project called Inspired Recovery. Working on this book and hearing the life stories of these truly magnificent people and their struggle with mental illness has been one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. I have really begun to believe that mental illness is not the end of the world - there is a chance. You just have to be

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