{"id":2534,"date":"2011-05-03T00:47:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T00:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:26","slug":"guest-blogger-nicci-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/guest-blogger-nicci-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blogger: Nicci Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a>\"\"<\/a>Hi, my name is Nicci Wall. I am an Aussie from Geelong, Victoria\u00a0<\/span> a bayside regional city. I was diagnosed with Bipolar in November 2001 after 21 years of symptoms, predominately depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until I progressed into agitated, rapid cycling mixed states that I was diagnosed. My family was scared of me, hell, I was scared of me and I hated the way I was, but didn\u2019t know what was causing the internal rage or why. I demanded to see a psychiatrist and on doing so my Mum finally disclosed there was Manic Depression in my maternal Grandmother\u2019s family.<\/span><\/p>\n

It took 5 \u00bd years to find a medication combination that worked for me and side effects I could live with. OMG some of the side effects I experienced were worse than the illness!<\/span><\/p>\n

When diagnosed I wasn\u2019t provided any information on Bipolar, where to find information or where to find support, so I set about educating myself through books and an online Australian Bipolar Support Group called Fyreniyce<\/a><\/span>. I learnt more from the real life experiences of other sufferers than I did from any book. I completed mood charts, identified triggers and implemented coping strategies obtained through reading, Julie\u2019s work, support group participants and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

I later set up a Depression & Bipolar Support Group in my local area and started compiling the living manuscript Glimpses \u2013 A compilation of uncensored real life experiences with Mental Illness and Minds Unleashed \u2013 A collection of poetry by people with a Mental Illness.<\/em><\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Both of which are available in pdf format for free by emailing me at<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 (forwalls @\u00a0 xi.com.au) I distribute these quarterly to Consumers, Carers, Dr\u2019s, Clinicians, Universities and TAFE\u2019s (it is used as a course resource), nationally and internationally. (I’ve listed my email with a few spaces in order to avoid spammers! You can type it into your email regularly wihtout the spaces. ) <\/span><\/p>\n

Now 10 years down the track I am relatively stable, but continue to have breakthrough episodes, although rarely. What I do experience regularly is a pressured head, low grade headache combined with light and sound sensitivity, which in turn affects my cognitive abilities. As I am a Bookkeeper\/Admin Manager, this can be extremely frustrating and disrupt my work, but I am luckier than most as I have a boss who accepts this and allows a lot of flexibility in my hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have achieved a lot over the past 10 years as a Mental Health Advocate, but the most important thing I did was take responsibility for managing my illness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is a link to read more about my beaufitul home town of Geelong, Victoria in Australia. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nicci<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a>\"\"<\/a>Hi, my name is Nicci Wall. I am an Aussie from Geelong, Victoria a bayside regional city. I was diagnosed with Bipolar in November 2001 after 21 years of symptoms, predominately depression.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until I progressed into agitated, rapid cycling mixed states that I was diagnosed. My family was scared of me, hell, I was scared of me and I hated the way I was, but didn\u2019t know what was causing the internal rage or why. I demanded to see a psychiatrist and on doing so my Mum finally disclosed there was Manic Depression in my maternal Grandmother\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

It took 5 \u00bd years to find a medication combination that worked [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11710,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/11710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}