Harry:
With this Bi-Polar diagnosis branded on me about six years ago, my life became about dancing with this. I did recently re-invent a very creative re-definement as one of temperament instead of illness, and on and on. It served to allow me to feel better about myself - as long as I didn't slam into the outside world. Being here this week has clarified things to the point of ridiculous simplicity. I was diagnosed Bi-Polar. At this point, I just take the management meds and forge ahead. At some point, I'll question the criteria that diagnosis was made from.

What I really want you to know is that last night it occurred to me - the couple times I've been in the hospital because of the bi-polar stuff - is clearly and absolutely attributable to one thing and one thing only - I was stuck in secondaries. That explains why, the first time I was in the hospital, no one had done anything "to" or "for" me, just admission. Yet, as soon as I was walked to my room and the man barely closed the door, before my bottom hit the bed, I got it, "sanity is a choice." What an insight and now, it seems my secondary popped!

This work you do is making sense of what has felt like moments of personal brilliance wandering at sea. I've always been ravishingly hungry for more and more and more. Now, now, my personal powers have focus; of where that comes from and how to keep me growing and the eternity of it all. Thank you, Harry, for you and for me.

Tami Blumenthal- USA