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	<title>Comments on: Amanda Walton-Gaston</title>
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		<title>By: TJ</title>
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		<description>Hi Amanda,

I&#039;ve read some of what you&#039;ve written and I so relate. I&#039;m bipolar and schizophrenic and have suffered with it for years. I actually was only diagnosed three years ago because I just never believed that there was something wrong with me.

I literally cannot tell you my story in this setting. It is so long and so difficult. For instance, I&#039;ve been married 6 times, drug and alcohol abuse, child sexual abuse as a small boy, spent every dollar crazily, completely and totally sexually promiscuous, to the extreme, suicidal. 

I have a blog and if and when you have time I&#039;d love for you to take a look at it. It&#039;s a new blog - just started it.

I don&#039;t try to characterize the bipolar condition, I tell my history and my feelings on a daily basis. I go into the history because if one is perceptive he or she will realize how my mental problems have affected me. I try hard to accept the responsibility of my own actions but my life has been so traumatic, I just run out of energy. I have so many questions about why I am the way I am; I don&#039;t understand why I think the way I do; I don&#039;t understand why there can be two totally different people in my mind. I just can&#039;t understand what has happened.

I have been on meds for three years but the problems haven&#039;t gone away.

If you visit my blog, you will read some pretty sordid details. But I&#039;m just telling it like it&#039;s been.

My website is http://www.bipolarmale.com

Take care and God bless,

TJ</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Amanda,</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve read some of what you&#8217;ve written and I so relate. I&#8217;m bipolar and schizophrenic and have suffered with it for years. I actually was only diagnosed three years ago because I just never believed that there was something wrong with me.</p>
<p>I literally cannot tell you my story in this setting. It is so long and so difficult. For instance, I&#8217;ve been married 6 times, drug and alcohol abuse, child sexual abuse as a small boy, spent every dollar crazily, completely and totally sexually promiscuous, to the extreme, suicidal. </p>
<p>I have a blog and if and when you have time I&#8217;d love for you to take a look at it. It&#8217;s a new blog &#8211; just started it.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t try to characterize the bipolar condition, I tell my history and my feelings on a daily basis. I go into the history because if one is perceptive he or she will realize how my mental problems have affected me. I try hard to accept the responsibility of my own actions but my life has been so traumatic, I just run out of energy. I have so many questions about why I am the way I am; I don&#8217;t understand why I think the way I do; I don&#8217;t understand why there can be two totally different people in my mind. I just can&#8217;t understand what has happened.</p>
<p>I have been on meds for three years but the problems haven&#8217;t gone away.</p>
<p>If you visit my blog, you will read some pretty sordid details. But I&#8217;m just telling it like it&#8217;s been.</p>
<p>My website is <a href="http://www.bipolarmale.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.bipolarmale.com</a></p>
<p>Take care and God bless,</p>
<p>TJ</p>
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