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Occupy the World - I WIll Bring My Drum

“Several people pounded on drums.” - From a Sunday LA Times article, “LA marchers chant ‘We are the 99%’”, buried on page A37. I attended my first protest in the spring of 1969. I was just starting to grow my hair long. On a chill fall night several months...

Published Tue, Oct 18 2011 7:05 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Occupy Wall Street, Ocupy LA, drumming

Making Movies

In May, 2016, in one incredibly productive burst, I shot 26 videos in two sessions with my good friend, Maggie Reese. Maggie is the author of Runaway Mind and Runaway Mom, a devoted mother who runs several businesses from home. The videos were all shot...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2019 2:37 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Whitaker vs Torrey: Crunching Numbers

This is the fourth in our series of pieces dealing with Fuller Torrey’s response to Robert Whitaker’s 2010 “Anatomy of an Epidemic.” In his review, Dr Torrey asserts that on matters of schizophrenia and antipsychotic drugs, “Whitaker got it mostly wrong...

Published Wed, May 30 2012 6:20 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Fuller Torrey

Rerun: McMan's Dispensable Rules and Observations for Right Living

I've been tied up with a lot of volunteer work and work on new projects. Looking forward to returning to live posting fairly soon. In the meantime, this from April last year ... My grandson’s birth in Sept 2009 inspired me to come up with two posts...

Published Sat, Feb 25 2012 1:18 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, right living, wisdom

We Can All Get Along - Can't We?

Last week, I killed off the term, “antipsychiatry.” These days, we only hear the word used as an insult, too often in the context of attempting to discredit even mild critics of psychiatry. I may know what I mean when I use the A-word, but others hear...

Published Thu, Jan 12 2012 7:27 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, antipsychiatry

Dual Diagnosis, Co-Occurring Disorder: How Bad Is it?

I just added two segments to my mcmanweb article, When Mood Meets Alcohol and Substance Use. The two segments help open and close the article, but surprisingly they work together as a blog piece without the intervening content. Without further ado .....

Published Mon, Jan 16 2012 4:25 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, alternative bipolar, co-occurring disorder, dual diagnosis

Rerun: We Still Have a Dream

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised...

Published Mon, Jan 16 2012 4:52 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Martin Luther King, dream, mountain

Rerun: Death of a Healer - Ron Urquhart

Another post in honor of World Suicide Prevention day ... This is a terribly difficult piece to write. Last week, I Googled the name of someone I had known two decades ago, while living in a different country, in what seemed a different lifetime. All...

Published Sat, Sep 10 2011 5:09 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, suicide prevention, Ron Urquhart

Understanding Schizophrenia

Psychosis gets nearly all the attention in schizophrenia, but that is not necessarily its most prominent feature, according to Cameron Carter of UC Davis (pictured here). Dr Carter keynoted the NAMI CA convention in Sacramento about two weeks ago. Rather...

Published Thu, Sep 01 2011 6:27 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, schizophrenia, schizophrenia prevention, Cameron Carter

More on Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight

This is the third in a series of posts on Jill Bolte Taylor, author of “My Stroke of Insight.” In 1996, at age 37, Dr Taylor suffered a stroke that left her essentially a helpless infant in a woman’s body. Her recovery took eight years. As I reported...

Published Wed, Sep 14 2011 11:35 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight

Torrey Responds to Whitaker: At Last, a Conversation

I have devoted considerable space on this blog to Robert Whitaker’s 2010 “Anatomy of a of an Epidemic,” which posits that mental illness is on the rise because of psychiatric medications, rather than in spite of them. In reviewing Whitaker, I read the...

Published Tue, May 22 2012 7:29 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Fuller Torrey

The Book of Fort

The other day, while hiking in the mountains, I came across some ancient writings secreted in a cave. Clearly, they are Scripture from a forgotten people. I just finished translating the first scroll ... And there lived in the land of Gob a righteous...

Published Fri, Jan 20 2012 4:49 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Book of Forth

Steve Jobs - Making Connections and Creativity

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to...

Published Thu, Oct 06 2011 3:46 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Steve Jobs, creativity

Rebutting Whitaker: Not Such a Good Idea - Part II

On Saturday, I published a piece that said it is not such a good idea to claim to rebut (or for that matter refute or repudiate) Robert Whitaker and his 2010 book, “Anatomy of an Epidemic.” Not unless Whitaker happens to be a flat-earther making up his...

Published Mon, Nov 14 2011 11:19 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, William Glazer

Relationships: How Does Bipolar Figure Into It?

I’ve spent the last few days working on a talk I will be giving here in San Diego to the International Bipolar Foundation on Thursday, Sept 8. My talk will be on relationships, which I am an expert in, having been in and out of two marriages. Let’s pick...

Published Wed, Aug 03 2011 9:09 AM by Knowledge Is Necessity

Filed under: John McManamy, bipolar, relationships

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