Chapter 2 of my New Book

About CKD: Chronic Kidney Disease

I’ll try to publish several chapters to my blog before going on to publication

(this book is not yet completed)

Bipolar 1?

After the holdup in New York, my stepfather drove me to Pennsylvania, where he and my mom were then living. I was unstable in mind, and soon would be diagnosed with Schizophrenia.

In and out of psychiatric wards over many years, my last evaluation reported there was no need for the tons of various meds I’d had to take, and so after frequenting mental health drop-in centers, doing a bit of mental health consumer advocacy and trying to keep my head together for three decades, I was able to drop all medicine, save for that which just helps me to sleep at night.

After a too hasty marriage and an unhappy divorce (I suppose “unhappy” and “divorce” are seldom mutually exclusive), I returned to sunny California, and lived for seven years with my widowed mom in Oakland.

(Hit Me Once was the original title of the book, but Into the Grey is the working title; do you prefer one over the other? Please let me know if the comments section)