One Foot in the Right Direction: Bipolar a mental health problem by Janet Dunne

The Author & The Book.

Janet Dunne lives in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland; she’s a woman who has lived with bipolar disorder for some considerable time. Bipolar disorder is a lifelong mental health condition that causes extreme shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration. The characteristics of the disorder are intense emotional highs which come with irritable moods, little sleep, racing thoughts, rapid speech, impulsivity, and a distorted sense of grandiosity to manic depressions that leave a person with deep sadness, hopelessness, lack of energy, loss of interest in activities and potentially suicidal thoughts. Like most disorders there are several types to bipolarism all depending on how severe the ups and downs are. Yes medication, talking therapies and lifestyle adjustments play vital roles in keeping symptoms stable, but at the end of the day this is a life long mental health issue. Janet’s book talks about her many experiences, good, bad and indifferent from childhood to current day. What Janet hopes to achieve with this book is for those living with bipolarism to see Janet’s perspective on bipolar disorder and how she has confronted many of her inner demons so to speak. On the other hand, those of us fortunate enough not to be living with a mental disorder of this nature, Janet’s wish by writing this book is that you get an inkling as to what it must be like for someone who has bipolar disorder and maybe adopt a more sympathetic approach when they are going through a rough patch. Both the book and Janet’s own life have many humorous antidotes and tales that are cleverly entwined in the storyline.

A very insightful book as far as I’m concerned go check it out.

Check out our video chat here:

Just to give you a heads-up as to what you can expect in the book, I’m listing the contents so that you can see the broad range of topical issues Janet talk about.

Overview of my Life and my Thinking
The Things I Learnt
The Treatment in Germany for Mental Illness
Back in Ireland
Learning Yoga
A spiritual Healer
Another Healer I met Truly Helped
My Understanding on Depression
I Comfort Ate
Allowing Everyone their Space to be as they are
Fear
The Promise I made to Myself
Holding on to Feelings Stops the Flow of Life
Understanding and Logic
Another Journey I took was I Joined the Chistian Fellowship
Feelings are not You
Voices in my Head
Bipolar How I Came to this Point
Why has this Elation Affected me this Way?
Forgiveness and Understanding
Dignity, how it Gets Taken Away
Now I Know What You Did to the Jews
Put Yourself First
Sorry I Taught I was Finished
To the reader that doesn’t Understand Bipolar

Publishers

AuthorHouse www.authorhouse.com / Bookstore search Janet Dunne and there you’ll find her book.

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley. The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley, and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Apple streaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit: www.Expertsandauthors.tv online and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Janet, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your book One Foot in the Right Direction. I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you in the future.

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