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		<title>Blogging Against Disablism:  Mental Illness, Stigmatisation, Coming Out</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  This is going to be short because if I try and make it a grand narrative I might chicken out of coming out.
I am disabled.  My disability is invisible.  I have a mental illness.  I have a disorder of affect, a mood disorder, of the type commonly but simplistically known [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blobolobolob.blogspot.com/2008/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-will-be.html"><img align="right" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_aQ1h56WoARI/RiTluY_3ysI/AAAAAAAAAF4/OtOnWPq3n38/s320/bad01.gif" alt="Blogging Against Disablism Day, May 1st 2008" title="Blogging Against Disablism Day, May 1st 2008" border="0" /></a>  This is going to be short because if I try and make it a grand narrative I might chicken out of coming out.</p>
<p>I am disabled.  My disability is invisible.  I have a mental illness.  I have a disorder of affect, a mood disorder, of the type commonly but simplistically known as manic-depression.</p>
<p>For many years I was diagnosed as chronically depressed.  I tried many anti-depressant medications which merely made me emotionally numb and left me with undesirable side-effects.  I did not keep taking them.  When I was finally diagnosed with a mood disorder by a clinical psychologist and prescribed appropriate medication, my condition drastically improved.</p>
<p>Unfortunately after several years on that medication it stopped working so well.  Indeed, I was experiencing side effects which I attributed to an old musculo-skeletal injury &#8211; I only realised that it was in fact my medication when I ran out while my GP was on holiday, decided &#8220;I can manage without for a few days&#8221; and discovered that my various aches and pains radically resolved once I stopped taking my meds.  So, I didn&#8217;t ask for a new prescription.  I&#8217;m now having insomnia problems, for which I take a sleeping tablet about every third night to get at least some decent sleep.  I&#8217;m managing.</p>
<p>As a political blogger, I kept this secret until now, because of the way in which mental illnesses are stigmatised.  It&#8217;s easy for those who oppose your opinions to dismiss you if you have a mental illness.  But having a mood disorder does not make me incapable of rational analysis and commentary.  It has affected my life profoundly in many ways, but my intellectual capacity is not one of them.</p>
<p>OK, if I try and write any more I know I won&#8217;t hit that publish button.  That&#8217;s it.<strong>Similar Posts:</strong>
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