By Peter J. Dorsen, M.D., LADC
The preliminary version of Up from the Ashes: One Doc’s Struggle with Drugs and Mental Illness is available on Amazon.com. Give a read. It is a revised version of Crazy Doctor: Mixing Drugs and Mental Illness.
The preliminary version of Up from the Ashes: One Doc’s Struggle with Drugs and Mental Illness is available on Amazon.com. Give a read. It is a revised version of Crazy Doctor: Mixing Drugs and Mental Illness.
I owe it to those I endeavor to help
with the struggle dealing with the treatable bipolar disorder. Here’s a flash. Luckily on Lamictal (lamotrigine),
I noticed as the season is morphing into Fall, I felt myself slipping into
depression. I was going down just as the Maples and ash were coloring
beautifully yet dropping their treasures. Suddenly, I felt my discomfort stop.
I realized that a frightening mood change had stopped.
So, for me, I describe the blessing
of the correct medication. My story I recount in the new Up from the Ashes is
the journey culminating is stability. I am during a bountiful relationship with
a beautiful (inside and out) woman, but I am not blowing it.
We both face our challenges. We share our individual struggles. The
outcome is a mutual love now possible by facing our demons but not fearing
losing our creativity or how we function with other life’s stressors.
I hope Up from the Ashes: One Doc’s Struggle with Drugs and Mental Illness
may afford you the wherewithal to take such a journey from inner and outer pain
to an all-new freedom. My updated message is get sound advice and accept
medication that can eliminate self-medicating with alcohol or drugs. Take this
journey with me in my new book.
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| 'Dr. D' at Hoigaard’s Classic Marathon in 2017 |
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