Living Out of Darkness
A personal journey of embracing the bipolar opportunity
by
Book Cover & Preview Text
This is the theory that I have come up with to explain the bipolar experience. If you ever meet a normal person, please let me know, I’d like to meet them. But for sake of argument let’s just say a normal person has a fairly regular cycle of ups and downs. They are going to have good days. They are going to have bad days. Some days are better than others. Now let’s introduce a bipolar person. We’ll start off with an untreated, un-medicated bipolar person just raw, right out of the factory. They are going to have extreme highs and they are going to have extreme lows. They might even have a couple highs and then couple of lows; it can be very erratic. .... For years I’ve tried to figure out how to explain to my mom what the untreated bipolar experience is like. The best metaphor I’ve come up with yet is that you are blindfolded, riding in a helicopter, going through a storm. You have no clue. You can be cruising along and everything is good, but all of a sudden you are going up or down or all over the place. It can be very disorientating. Some of us grow up thinking everybody is this way. You mean everyone doesn’t feel bleak one minute and on top of the world the next? Nope, and we don’t have to either-once we learn how to fly our own minds. …. Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. An untreated bipolar person starts out blindfolded in the passenger’s seat, often feeling like a victim as he goes through the storms or crawls out of the wreck of his life, only to get back in his helicopter, blindfolded again. This book can help you with the flight school of your mind. It is a guide to finding ways for learning how to use the controls in your ’copter. The better we are at figuring out where we are going (having a dream), learning how to negotiate weather (Life), and reading our gauges (food, mind, and spirit), the sooner some of our swings can mellow out a bit. We can become better at dealing with the biggies when they hit. Please remove your seatbelt, slide over to the pilot’s seat, and begin your journey. Don’t worry about the blindfold; this book will help take it off when you’re ready.
Formats
Book Details
About the Book
Denslow opens his heart and bares his soul. He truly is on a mission to ignite a fire in our hearts for personal responsibility of mental health. His life story and wisdom are a true guiding light for all of us still learning to dance with our shadows. He not only shares positive healthy methods for breaking free from a personal hell within, but invites us to dream again while envisioning the possibilities we desire. Denslow acknowledges the dark side, and does not run from it. He has given us a true guide for the mental landscape of heaven and hell. .... “Passion and truth, are like food and water for a bi polar person. With out them we are lost or numb. We really can check out anytime we want. Blow a gasket going high, or sink into the dirt lost forever, but if we stay connected with planet earth and this life what we can do right here right now, then we can have a reason to hang out for longer periods of time in the middle ground.” .... Being bi polar is an opportunity to practice everyday the way we can serve others in the same capacity we have to serve ourselves. We lead people to a better life, through being an example of continual discovery and overcoming our inner swings. We provide nurturing comfort and guidance because we know firsthand the need for it. .... Compassion is the gem of living with our mental opportunities. The better we are at taking care of ourselves through highs and lows, the deeper we can feel connected with people that experience any size of bump or vision in the road. .... “Clear your energy, Honor your Rhythm, Live your vision.” ~ George Denslow
About the Author
When I was seventeen I had the opportunity to be locked up in a mental institution against my will for being actively suicidal and refusing treatment. I was diagnosed with being bi-polar, manic depressant. They wanted to put me on lithium, they never did. My family doctor and father agreed that I was heavily into how the mind affected the body, and decided not to force the issue of medications. I was released five weeks later on my own recognizance to begin my life’s journey as an adult. I had one purpose in life, not to lose my freedom again, ever. I believed that God doesn’t make junk, and that I was created this way for a reason. My mission in life became to find a way to live without medications. By hook or by crook and at times sheer guts I’ve discovered a way and a why. This book is the result of 20 years actively developing and living a holistic spiritual approach to thriving with Bi Polar, using my body and my life as a guinea pig.