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Moving to Utah, my father found a new position from General Motors to Parker. He was a chemical engineer, and I've always looked up to him as a very intellectual man. We moved out in the seventh grade year. This was a tough grade to move from, and especially hard with the prevalant Mormon religion. Suddenly, there were no people in the streets that played sports as in Michigan days. Life in Utah became very difficult and unhappy. We no longer had the cottage to enjoy and unwind for waterskiing and boating.

The mountains are neat in Utah, but I missed the lakes terribly.

Getting good marks in school came easy in junior high, and playing and recess were such a joy!!

Flying kites, going to camps, swinging, riding bikes, swimming-- all were truly fun.

I graduated in high school being on the dean's list each quarter except one.

In college I housed in the dorms for the first two years. In my junior year I lived in some apartments near campus. At this point of my schooling was my true downfall. My stress level turned an all-time high, and during my finals I drove myself to the emergency and all they said was wrong with me was "stress". I had gone crazy. My mind had gone ballistic and noone could understand me!!! I went to the Western Institute of Neuropsychiatry. The doctor there thought I was schizophrenic. I had told him that I thought a guy had put a drug in my drink. He analogized the fact that it was like imagining a drug was in a piece of chocolate. I layed there in a room of five hopelessly wishing to die.

I finally became aware of a name that depicted my condition which is entitled "bipolar disorder". I became familiar with lithium from a friend of my parents. This medication seemed to be a nice match for balancing my chemical imbalance. I also was prescribed taking depakote coupled with the lithium. It took a long time to discover that I was bi-polar.

I have been in and out of the hospital roughly five times since my junior year in college. I have grown as a person. My earlier years before college were filled with nervousness and uptight feelings that were different from my family and friends. I am writing a book to account for deeper detailed issues on my many experiences of bi-polar disorder. This problem is a definite "power of patience".

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