High Roller or Bipolar

High Roller or Bipolar

The Futility of Mental Illness Charities

Supporting people affected by [insert your disorder here]

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Spencer Stern
Oct 06, 2022
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In the two decades of having ultimately received a supposed ‘final’ diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder for a temporary bout or two of manic ill-behaviour episodes frightening those around me into getting (overly) convinced that my ‘disease of the mind’ was true I have reached another conclusion. In effect, the pointlessness of mental ill health charities spo…

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