Why do the Mental Health Professionals refuse to embrace this type of treatment for mental illness? 

This is the first time I have heard of this website. Yours is the first thing I have read, and you are just too much!   I must be in the same boat since I can relate to every word you have written. Keep me posted on your progress, and keep enjoying life, they don't know what they are missing!

I'm familiar with the stigma. I was deemed an "implied threat" (even though they admit there never was any threat) due to my illness by an employer. They did not understand that my creativity and intensity. Worst of all, my termination was predicated on a lie by someone who did not or would not understand what bipolar is.

Ten years of lotalty down the tube. I rolled with the punches came back and in four months was able to land a job. Be it for much less money and benefits, I'm grateful for what I have.

Now it's their time to face me in US District Court. Major Investment Bank vs. discriminated employee.  I'll be blogging the back ground of this story and how it plays out.

Just be warned, Wall Street firms play dirty and I'll expose the dirt in my up coming blog entries.

In the meantime, I much rather hang out with the mentally ill then a bunch of pretentious stuffed shirts. At least many of us can say one thing that others cannot, "I enjoy my life and I enjoy my illness". It does make me one funny f#@king character!!!

Rob