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Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional

Blog: http://hopeworkscommunity.wordpress.com
Hopeworks Community is a multi-faceted site that covers many aspects of bipolar disorder as well as other mental health issues. Included are bipolar, recovery, support, suicide prevention, advocacy, depression stigma and others. Hopeworks Community has been featured on many other sites... Full Bio
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On the narrow edge of suicide by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder Posted first a couple of years ago.     I have a close friend who almost died.   She used to describe for me what a day was like when you were suicidal ... Read on »
Having a place to live makes a difference by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder Savings From Supportive Housing for the Homeless » Metro Pulse . Read on »
“But” and “and”- another look by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder This and the post on bipolar marriage are the most widely read posts on this blog.  This is a repost.   You wouldnt think such little words could make such a big d ... Read on »
psychiatric hospitals: the insurance intervention by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder Health insurance is the elephant in the room in virtually every  psychiatric hospital. More than any single factor it determines rather or not you get into the hospital, h ... Read on »
On being a victim. Another look by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder I had one of those conversations with a friend tonight that you remember. He has struggled with mental health issues his entire life. He has enough stories to fill sev ... Read on »
On visiting a mental health plantation. Another look by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder I visited a mental health plantation yesterday. I went to watch two friends do an IOOV presentation to a group from a local psychiatric hospital/intensive outpatient/g ... Read on »
Scientific American and the DSM 1. by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder Psychiatrists Are About to Shift the Boundaries between Sane and Insane | Streams of Consciousness, Scientific American Blog Network . Read on »
On the invisible man. Another look by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder I met a guy in a support group who told me about being invisible. He was a deacon in a local church and by all accounts was viewed as a community leader and someone th ... Read on »
The psychiatric ward: a culture of disregard by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder This is the second in a series of posts on psychiatric hospitalization.  It was actually written before the hopeworks community blog even existed and describes an experien ... Read on »
Scientific American and DSM 2. by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder Read on »
On a to be list. Another look by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder A friend today gave me a great piece of advice. I told him that I wanted to become a lot better in organizing my day.  I told him that “to do” lists just didnt seem to ... Read on »
NYT: The V.A.’s Shameful Betrayal by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder Read on »
On Hope. A place to begin by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder This is a repost of one of the earliest posts on this blog   When Linda and I first started this site our goal was to make sure that the message of hope was clear. ... Read on »
To see you through ( a poem for Linda) by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder An everyday song   Your courage is each day new even when skies are black and the day heavy and things are as lead and weight immovable. Your love touc ... Read on »
Meeting mental health challenge – m.JSOnline.com by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder Read on »
THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder For a friend.  Hope it helps   DON HENLEY [Eagles] – THE HEART OF THE MATTER – YouTube . Read on »
Building muscle in life by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder What puts you in the drivers seat and gets you out of the position of being what it driven?  What gives you muscle in life? Taking care of you.  Sleep, nutrition an ... Read on »
ON forgiveness. Another look by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder Without forgiveness there is no future or hope for the future.  We are condemned to try to win the extra innings of a past game that can never be won.  We may fight to win ... Read on »
Recovery tools: 8. Expect failure by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder It is possible to do everything right and bad things still happen.  In fact, it is likely that at some point in time that no matter how bad you want good things to happen, ... Read on »
The downhill theory of relapse. another look by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in Bipolar Disorder I have a friend with bipolar disorder who described his theory of relapse prevention.  I thought it made a lot of sense so I want to share it with you. I call it the d ... Read on »
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