Christine F. Anderson

Apr 2015 11

Resilience: Two Sisters & a Story of Mental Illness By Jessie Close

2015 Articles, Christine F. Anderson, Mental Health

by Christine Anderson

Jessie Close is an internationally recognized speaker, author, poet, and advocate for mental health reform. She lives with bipolar disorder in the foothills of the Tobacco Root Mountains outside Bozeman, Montana with her service dog, Snitz, and three other dogs. She is the author of The Warping of Al (Harper & Row, 1990), and she writes a regular blog for Bring Change 2 Mind, an anti-stigma organization that her sister, Glenn, created at Jessie's request.

Fox’s Breakout Hit Empire Takes on Mental Illness

2015 Articles, Christine F. Anderson, Mental Health, TV

by Christine Anderson

Fox’s new drama, Empire, tells the rags-to-riches story of the Lyon family, whose patriarch, Lucious, played by Terrance Howard, rises to fame as a hip-hop artist, and starts a record label called Empire with drug money his ex-wife, Cookie (Taraji P. Henson), earned by dealing, for which she spent 17 years in prison. She left behind three children.

Denial, Acceptance, Recovery: What Stage of Bipolar are YOU in?

2014 Articles, Christine F. Anderson, Mental Health

by Christine Anderson

I was diagnosed Bipolar I in 1987 and I spent 23 years in denial, became medication compliant in 2008, and finally accepted my disease in 2010. I have been in recovery since 2011.
I have experienced all three stages of my topic and I would like to discuss with you and tell you from first-hand experience what each one of them feels and looks like.