Psychjourney Audio Book Club: Bi-polar Disorder

Mommy I'm Still in Here: Raising Children with Bipolar Disorder

Length-34 minutes, 21 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Kate McLaughlin, author of Mommy I'm Still in Here: Raising Children with Bipolar Disorder published by Behler Publicaions.

Ms. Kate McLaughlin

Kate McLaughlin was born and raised in Ontario, California. She attended Chaffey High School and graduated magna cum laude from the University of La Verne with a liberal arts degree. She married her high school sweetheart, attended graduate school at Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State San Bernardino, and worked in the Upland School District.

Her three children were born in Southern California. After teaching elementary school, coordinating special programs, and training fellow teachers and classroom aides for over a dozen years, Kate began her writing career. As a columnist for Southern Progress Corporation, a subsidiary of Time-Warner, Kate wrote dozens of magazine articles, then added two regional gardening books to her list of achievements before switching gears to write, speak, and advocate on topics related to Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and mental health.

Kate frequently writes and speaks to Parent-Teacher groups, high school and college students, mental health consumers and their families, and other community members. She is a member of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the Juvenile Bipolar Research. Visit her website

April 19, 2008 in Addiction and Recovery, Bi-polar Disorder, Drug abuse, Mental Disorders | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction

MP3 File Length-57 minutes, 9 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction published by Houghton Mifflin Co.

Mr. David Sheff

David Sheff’s books include, Game Over, China Dawn, and All We Are Saying. His many articles and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Wired, Fortune, and elsewhere. His piece for the New York Times Magazine, “My Addicted Son,” won an award from the American Psychological Association for “Outstanding Contribution to Advancing the Understanding of Addiction.” Sheff and his family live in Inverness, California. Visit his website.

April 18, 2008 in Autobiography, Bi-polar Disorder, Drug abuse, Father and Sons | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Get It Done When You're Depressed

MP3 File Length-44 minutes, 27 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Julie A Fast, co-author of Get It Done When You're Depressed, with John D. Preston, Psy.D., ABPP, and published by Alpha Penguin.

Ms. Julie A. Fast

Julie A. Fast, author of Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder and Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner, is a critically acclaimed four-time author, national speaker, and sought after expert in the field of bipolar disorder and depression. She is regarded as a mental health pioneer for her groundbreaking, comprehensive approach to treating bipolar disorder and depression using both mainstream and proven alternative therapies.

Julie's work has helped thousands of people on medication as well as those who have difficulties tolerating medications find ways to successfully manage their condition and reclaim their lives.

Julie runs Bipolar Happens, an internationally popular online resource for people with bipolar disorder. You can read about her books at www.juliefast.com

April 02, 2008 in Bi-polar Disorder, Depression | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Manic: A Memoir

MP3 File

Length-29 minutes, 6 seconds

Jamie Mason, co-host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Terri Cheney, author of Manic: A Memoir published by William Morrow.

Ms. Terri Cheney

After graduating Vassar College with honors, Ms. Cheney attended UCLA School of Law. She then specialized in intellectual property and entertainment litigation at several prominent L.A. firms, including Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Over the course of her sixteen-year career, Ms. Cheney represented many celebrities and major motion picture studios, including Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Universal, Columbia, etc. Her pro bono work ranged from counseling local theaters to petitioning the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the ACLU.

After years of secretly struggling with manic depression, Ms. Cheney decided to leave the law and devote her advocacy skills toward a cause that is closer to her heart: writing about her illness, and encouraging the mentally ill to tell their own stories. In recognition of her efforts, she was appointed a member of the Community Advisory Board of the UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program, the nation’s largest nonprofit research consortium regarding manic depression. She also founded a weekly community support group at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Ms. Cheney currently lives in Los Angeles. Visit her website.

Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.

March 01, 2008 in Autobiography, Bi-polar Disorder, Depression | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)