Mark MI words
Mental Illness is my normal, and that's what I share in Mark MI Words (MMW). The struggles, the successes, the failures. Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=20360507
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I recently discussed why I openly talk about suicide and believe it should be part of public conversation. There are several reasons, but three stand out: reducing stigma, addressing the silence that contributes to the issue, and recognising that we can't solve a problem if we don't understand it—open discussion is essential for understanding.
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The other day I found out that a friend of mine had died and for the last couple of days I've been clearly trying to digest it.
I've lived overseas in the days before Facebook, and I have had these really intense personal friendships for a very short amount of time. Friendships that aren't documented in any way. No selfies or social media posts.
I'm the sort of person who has friendships that although we don't se...
I was asked today why I tell my lived experience story.
It is not that people will feel sorry for me, nor is it a pity party.
I tell my story to encourage others who suffer like me to know that mental illness is not the end of your story.
Mental illness may be a bump in the road, but it does not have to be your identity!
You can have a full life after mental illness!
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I'm never going to pretend I have all the answers. And in truth there are a million keys to resilience but there are 2 things that I have learned that keep me on the road to recovery... whatever that means.
They are Patience and Purpose.
I must have patience to know things will change; and a purpose to help keep me moving forward.
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In this next chapter of BUMWIPER, I'm going to talk about things that I've never really spoken about out loud. I'm not a hundred percent sure how I'm going to get through this, but I want to try.
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The book continues with a discussion of what it's like to work with Autistic people. The challenges, the victories and ultimately the impact that it had on me.
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Sexual abuse. In our righteous haste to protect the innocent we can leave the innocent accused with lasting scars and stigma.
This is how.
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I went to work one day and for hours my client tried to kill himself.
Chapter 5 of my book BUMWIPER tells this story.
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I started writing BUMWIPER before I was hurt. I started writing it while I was still working in the disability profession and at was working at a fairly high level.
I was about to become a network manager. I was a behavior modification expert. My skills were highly sought after and for all intents and purposes, this was going to be my life, working with people with disabilities. Then I got hurt, attacked in the workplace by a guy wi...
When I first began writing BUMWIPER, over 20 years ago, i was a different man.
I set out to write a book about the oft mis-understood world of caring for people with disabilities.
It was going to be a lighthearted, self-deprecating look at my job and how I reacted to it.
Now I see it as something different entirely. It is in many ways naive. It is immature. And it was untruthful.
I did not understand the toll my job was taking on me an...
The title of my second book is called BUMWIPER.
It is the story of my 18 years working directly with people with disability, intellectual disability, physical disability, emotional disability, dual diagnosis, acquired brain injury, you name it, I worked with them.
After working in that industry, I ended up with complex PTSD (CPTSD).
I was writing a book while I was still working as a BUMWIPER, and I put it aside for many years.
My i...
The title of my second book is called BUMWIPER. It is the story of my 18 years working directly with people with disability, intellectual disability, physical disability, emotional disability, dual diagnosis, acquired brain injury, you name it, I worked with them.
After working in that industry, I ended up with Complex PTSD (CPTSD) .
I was writing a book while I was still working as a BUMWIPER, and I put it aside for many years.
My in...
I am a great believer in the power of the spoken word. Poetry however has always been difficult for me and I have never really been able to fully appreciate it (or even get into it).
But when my friend Ananya posted a poem onto her socials, I challenged myself to 'give it a go'.
What I read was a revelation. I'd never connected so much with a piece of prose.
I needed to discuss what I'd read and who better to do that w...
When I was first hurt, it was hard for me to acknowledge that I wasn't able to do certain things anymore.
Things that I'd done a million times would be a impossible for me.
I would feel extremely guilty whenever I had to say no to anybody for any reason. I just felt that as and normal existing human, that I should be able to do everything that I set my mind to.
And it could be as simple as just a family gathering, something...
Even though I have a mental illness I need to understand that your behavior is my own.
I have had to learn to be humble. Had to learn to apologize to my children, to humble myself in front of my children, to be vulnerable in front of my children.
And that in turn allows me to be vulnerable to people outside of my house, to people that I wrong, to people that I treat poorly in a moment of deep anxiety or deep depression or deep anger.
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Resilience is not a destination. Resilience is a journey. And resilience is a decision that you make often, sometimes many times in one day.
A couple of weeks ago, something happened. There was a miscommunication, and it went really, really badly for me.
When the incident happened, I lost it. All of my symptoms came back... the silver flashing in the corner of my eye, the shaking, the stuttering, being unable to talk, the anger.
And t...
Welcome to Mark (& Paul) MI Words.
Paul joins us as a special guest host.
Today we discuss DIAGNOSIS!
The difficulties, the resilience and stress needed to arrive at a diagnosis.
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For those that don't know, as well as Mark MI Words, I do a radio show on 2XX FM Canberra.
It's called Mental Illness Education and you or (mieNu- pronounced 'me-n-you').
This week on the show i welcomed a guest whose insight into life with a mental illness in insightful and clear. He's also incredibly brave. You'll be hearing more from Paul in the coming weeks on Mark MI Words as his is a voice you need to he...
So I was talking to somebody a little while back and they asked me a question that surprised me, a question that I wasn't expecting, a question that I thought was self-evident to everyone. I didn't think it was a question that anybody would need to ask.
But it was quite simply, what is PTSD? Today is I'm just going to dive into what PTSD means for me. I'm going to talk about what it is, talk about how I got it.
It's 2025!
To start this year, I'd like to go back to 'why'.
Why do i do this podcast?
A big part of the reason was losing my friend Daniel to suicide.
His loss inspired me to start telling my story so no-one in my sphere of influence would think that suicide is the best option (or even a 'good' option).
All suicide is preventable.
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