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	<title>Irked Magazine &#187; Mara McWilliams</title>
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		<title>&#8230;Much More Than Bipolar, by Mara McWilliams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Mara McWilliams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reclusive, puzzled by the so-called sanity outside my door:
Arsons, Mutilations, Murders, Child molestations…
Honking cars, Traffic Jams, too much out there —
Inside here is preferable, where I am sure of who I am
And who I can become.

<a href="http://irkedmagazine.com/wanderingagoraphobe/leah/238/much-more-than-bipolar">CLICK HERE</a> to read full poem.
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		<title>Recovery Through Art &#8211; a gallery by Mara McWilliams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Filed under: Regular Contributors, Mara McWilliams,  Themes, The UpDown Report, Shoutout from the Cutting Edge, Art Gallery
Creative Art Therapy
by Mara McWilliams

See more of Mara’s work at www.recoverythroughart.com.
 
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		<title>Life of a Bipolar, by Mara McWilliams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends and family get concerned.
All of them careful, forlorn.
Wanting to help, but not sure how.

The shrink's schedule is full,
That's nothing new.
Two more days without sleep.
Continual rapid thoughts
And sped speech.
Foggy and clumsy, bruised from bumping into walls that have always been there.

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		<title>Bipolar Parenting, by Mara McWilliams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not naïve. I know my illness has an effect on my child. What kind of effect, I'm not sure; time will tell. I am honest with my daughter. We have discussed my illness many times: how it is called a brain disorder because there is a chemical imbalance in the brain. She knows that my illness is called Bipolar Disorder and that I take medication to treat it. She has experienced my moods changing from happy to sad within hours of each other, and she knows that my moods <I>are not a result of something she did.</I>

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		<title>Anorexic-Bulimic Lies, by Mara McWilliams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bipolar waves,
Borderline urges,
Anorexic denial.
Yearning for alcohol.
Intensely desiring to make pretty little
slices on my arm.
But still,
just WRITING it out.
Praying by pen,
the tool the Universe blessed my fragile hands with...

<a href="http://irkedmagazine.com/wanderingagoraphobe/leah/201/anorexic-bulimic-lies">CLICK HERE</a> to read full poem.
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