I interviewed Carrie Cantwell a few years ago on this blog. Her new memoir Daddy Issues is out now on Amazon’s Hot List for #1 Bipolar Books. I will review her book in forthcoming weeks. Carrie Cantwell grew up with an unstable father who suffered from manic depression. His emotional absence left her wounded andContinue reading “Amazon’s Hot List for Bipolar Memoirs is Carrie Cantwell’s Debut Memoir”
Category Archives: mental health
Find Your Shine
When I was in the 7th grade, I was told I would never go to college, be anybody in the world by a school counselor. I went to a high school where I was told I was a nothing and I blended into the school’s walls. But what happened was I worked my butt offContinue reading “Find Your Shine”
Mental Illness in Music: From Haunting Ballads to Anthems of Recovery
Halsey has bipolar. So does Mary Lambert—she even says so in her song “Secrets.” Musicians have embedded the theme of mental illness into their music for decades. Remember the anthem of every depressed teen? The Rolling Stones “Paint it Black” carved its way into the adolescent language and landscape. The Stones also wrote “19th NervousContinue reading “Mental Illness in Music: From Haunting Ballads to Anthems of Recovery”
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