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Alfredo Zotti – My Creative Life with Bipolar Disorder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA0p9m66kgI&t=156s

Hi, my name is Alfredo and I am an Italian immigrant–I emigrated to Australia from Italy in 1974. Back in the 80s I discovered that I had bipolar disorder, however that did not stop me from creating a good life for myself. I did all the things that made me a good citizen: I started to work but as a musician and as a cook in various Italian restaurants and later went to university and was able to get a university degree

I majored in sociology in anthropology and later study some psychology. Later, I began to help people online people that suffer with depression and anxiety and bipolar disorder. What I discovered was that many people with bipolar disorder, but also other disorders such as depression and anxiety were very creative and extremely intelligent. Today after many years of helping people online and helping myself and my wife–because we both suffered with bipolar disorder–I have come to one important conclusion: that bipolar disorder, just like depression and anxiety in other mental disorders as well, it’s part of being human of the human experience.

I invite you to learn more through this video as we discuss creativity and mental disorders with experts.

How to Write a Suicide Note: Serial Essays that Saved a Woman's Life

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How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for
white, who grew up poor, who loves women but has always married white
men. Writing has saved her life. It has allowed her to name the
historical trauma--the racist, sexist, classist experiences that have
kept her from being fully alive, that have screamed at her loudly and
consistently that she was no good, and would never be any good-and that
no one could love her. Writing has given her the creative power to name
the experiences that dictated who she was, even before she was born, and
write notes to them, suicide notes.

Sherry Quan Lee believes writing saves lives; writing has saved her life.


Acclaim for How to Write a Suicide Note


"How to Write a Suicide Note is a haunting portrait of the daughter of an African mother and a Chinese father. Sherry dares to be who she isn't supposed to be, feel what she isn't supposed to feel, and destroys racial and gender myths as she integrates her bi-racial identity into all that she is. Through her raw honesty and vulnerability, Sherry captures a range of emotions most people are afraid to confront, or even share. Her work is a gift to the mental health community."

--Beth Kyong Lo, M.A., Clinical Psychologist


"Sherry Quan Lee offers us, in How to Write a Suicide Note, a deep breathing meditation on how love is under continuous revision. And like all the best Blues singers, Quan Lee voices the lowdown, dirty paces that living puts us through, but without regret or surrender."

Wesley Brown, author of Darktown Strutters and Tragic Magic


"I love the female aspects, the sex, and the strong voice Sherry Quan Lee uses to share her private life in How To Write A Suicide Note. I love the wit, the tongue-in-cheek, the trippiness of it all. I love the metaphors, especially the lover and suicide ones. I love the free-associations, the 'raving, ravenous, relentless' back and forth. Quan Lee breaks the rules and finds her genius. How to Write a Suicide Note is a passionate, risk-taking, outrageous, life-affirming book and love letter."

Sharon Doubiago, author of Body and Soul, Hard Country; and other works



Learn more about the author at www.SherryQuanLee.com



Book #2 in the Reflections of History Series from Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com



Modern History Press is an imprint of Loving Healing Press
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