Welcome to my nifty Dreambook, a free guestbook service from New Dream Network and the DreamHost!If you have a minute, please add your entry to those below by signing my Dreambook!
| Name: | Dr. Jay |
| E-mail address: | jaycarter@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.BipolarLight.com |
| Comments: | I know I am signing my own guest book, but the person below, Sharon Liddle, has written the greatest book for kids on Bipolar Disorder! It is called "Eli The Bi-Polar Bear". I have a copy (which I don't lend out)and I have seen her book at the Eighth International Conference on Bipolar Disorder this year in Pittsburgh. It is great for kids, explaining mood swings and some of the problems that kids with BiPD may have, as well as providing an understanding for friends and family. I always recommend this book for kids wwho have a sibling or parent with BiPD. |
| Name: | Sharon Liddle |
| E-mail address: | sl@theelijahfoundation.org |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.TheElijahFoundation.org |
| Comments: | Dear Dr. Jay,
Thank you for sharing this wonderful, insightful seminar with me. You have such a clear understanding of the struggles and challenges that families face with bipolar disorder. It was almost like you lived in my house and were commenting on the life of my family. I will share this seminar with others and add you as a link on my website. The short cartoon video at the end was pretty accurate. I would MUCH rather come across a boogy man than an angry bipolar person. I know what the results can be. |
| Name: | Frank Seto |
| E-mail address: | seto123@live.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://ifranks.blogspot.com/ |
| Comments: | Brilliant information, Jay, I'll be sure to forward your innovative website to some colleagues and friends in Calgary that can really apply your wisdom. |
| Name: | Nick G. Kotchision |
| E-mail address: | ngk@att.net |
| Comments: | Dear Dr. Jay,
Thank you for your help with this seminar and taping it. I had the honor and pleasure of attending your seminar in Philadelphia early this year and it helped me immensely with developing a greater understanding and knowledge base of Bipolar Dis. I'm a therapist and am beginning an 8 week seminar next week on Bipolar Dis and Depression. The information I've acquired from you is a huge help and support. I have been sharing the Bipolar Light website with my colleagues and clients and am trusting it will bear fruit. I especially enjoy and appreciate your candid disclosures of events in your life. I wish you ongoing success with your outreach to others in spreading true knowledge and insight about Bipolar Dis and the new information that is being discovered. You are truly a light in my life and I'm most grateful. |
| Name: | Anonymous |
| E-mail address: | Anonymous |
| Comments: | I just finished watching your presentation "Bipolar Insights, Dr. Jay Style" on Bipolarlight.com for the second time.
I thank God I found you. |
| Name: | Lisa Wingo |
| E-mail address: | bipolar1970@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I am so grateful I stumbled upon your web site and had the opportunity to watch your video. It was so informative, yet compassionate. My grandmother was very bipolar, and I suspect my mother was for a number of years while I was growing up as well (she seemed to change after a hysterectomy in her late thirties). I found myself downloading your book and saying out loud, "This is ME!" Unfortunately, since my diagnosis last year at the age of 38, I have yet to find a therapist that knows much of anything about bipolar or even simple suggestions of how to live every day. I am on seroquel, cymbalta, ultram er (for fibromyalgia) and a thyroid med because I originally received a medical diagnosis for hyperthyroidism before anyone thought to suspect bipolar. Everything I have learned has been through my own research rather than therapists or my psychiatrist or family doctor. Thank you for the information you provided via that video and through your books—my husband and I finally are able to begin to learn what to do. Quite possibly your efforts may save my marriage and help bridge and strengthen my relationships with my children. Again, thank you... I hope to find help in my city of Springfield, Mo., even though resources so far appear to be practically nonexistent. I plan to order your DVD and look forward to you speaking in the Midwest at some point in the future. Regards, Lisa |
| Name: | Bill Wible |
| E-mail address: | docwible@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Since I had to live with this illness with both my mother and my sister, while i was living at home and also recently with a partner.
This seminar held my attention all the way through to the end. answered all my questions intelligently, enriching my understanding of the pipolar condition. Dr. Carters's presentation is stimulating, enriching and the video is well produced..had a laugh or two along with enjoying his passion and compassion for life and this subject matter. |
| Name: | Frank Jacobelli |
| E-mail address: | frankjac@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I am continually amazed by Dr. Jay's ability to present information that's essential for both the lay person and the mental health professional, and do so in a way that's not just creative but so thoroughly entertaining. Thanks, Dr. Jay, for all you do. |
| Name: | Dr. Jim Gamble |
| E-mail address: | jgamble@fiited.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.fiited.com |
| Comments: | I was entertained, I laughed, I remembered, and I was greatly moved by Dr. Jay's presentation at the Temple theatre in Saginaw, Michigan. The manner in which Dr. Jay imparts important information is amazing. Participants relate to what Dr. Jay has to say because he accurately describes what is going on in the mind of an individual who has a bi-polar disorder. Dr. Jay helps not only the individual who has the physical issue; he also vividly describes the empathy that is so essential for family members and friends to internalize. |
| Name: | Erin South |
| E-mail address: | esouth@bookmasters.com |
| Comments: | Dr. Jay you are amazing! Thanks for all your help and laughs!
"The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens." Irish Proverb ~Erin |
| Name: | Joyce G Pottash, Psy. D. |
| E-mail address: | jpottash@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thank you Dr. Jay for your very helpful and informative,and at the same time, enjoyable presentation. The field of Bipolar Research and Treatment if advancing rapidly, and it is reassuring to have so thorough a review of the current state of treatment as yours. Thank You Again. Joyce. |
| Name: | Kay Frick |
| E-mail address: | kayfrick@ymail.com |
| Comments: | I also made this comment at your other site but wanted to repeat it here so you would be most likely to see it.
THANK YOU!!!! I just watched the video of the Saginaw seminar and you are the first professional that I have"met" in 13 years of dealing with professionals that really seems to understand the complexities and possible spectrum of BP. I was about a 3 on your spectrum from the age of about 3 who was triggered into a 6.5 by multiple extreme pshycho-social stressors and was treated by the "experts as a 10 which triggered me into about an 8. I have had good success preventing major episodes through a more natural health treatment plan that includes most of your suggestions. I plan to encourage everyone I know to at least watch your video and I hope to have the money to purchase the DVD soon. Thank you again for focusing on the big picture and not just the "science" that has blinded so many "experts" to what we individuals really need. |
| Name: | Stacy |
| E-mail address: | kscdneu@cox.net |
| Comments: | My 7 year old son is bipolar. By watching the video, I now see a future of hope for him. Knowing that his chemical imbalance will more than likely be improved with future medications and current therapies, I no longer feel burden but empowered. We delight in his successes and struggles knowing it will be worth it for our entire family. Thank you Dr. Carter for the insight. |
| Name: | Ann |
| Comments: | Enjoyed the lecture, informative and helpful. Thanks. |
| Name: | Bill Bale |
| E-mail address: | chilehead1953@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I found out more in the Saginaw video than I had been told or had gathered myself since getting diagnosed in late 2001, and being a Gemini I am pretty well informed.
May Peace be with you and your kith and kin |
| Name: | Tom Somma |
| E-mail address: | tsomma@odu.edu |
| Name: | Dr. Jay |
| E-mail address: | jaycarter@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://jaycarter.net |
| Comments: | Hi Folks,
Thank you for signing my guest book and giving your feedback from the May 12 event this year in Saginaw. We are editing the film and your comments are much appreciated. This film will be entered in Film Festivals to promote the knowledge of bipolar disorder and help decrease the stigma. Hopefully it will also prompt more money into research. We are within ten years of stabilizing bipolar disorder in the individual and over the next ten years, things will get better and better. Dr. Jay |