A Fitful Life

A Fitful Life is a book that contributes towards the funding of Cognitive Harness. It is about the life of a person who lived with complex partial epilepsy, major depressive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, intrusive thinking, social anxiety disorder, symptoms of OCD. It tells the story of how living with these conditions caused a 43 year storm of a life in the form of clinical symptoms and discrimination. Learn from reading how all the many life events resulted in the unfair labelling of the author as having Paranoid Personality Disorder as part of psychiatry's attempt to sweep under the rug the abuse and discrimination that led to the mental scars being worn and lived with. It is a book that can be bought on amazon.

This book exposes institutes such as Glasgow Caledonian University, St Andrews University, Glasgow Academy, The Richmond Fellowship, Loughborough University, Police Scotland, Epilepsy Connections, The Epilepsy Society, Glasgow City Council social work services, ASA recruitment agency, Renfrewshire Council, the family (which included an honorary professor of neurology). All these insitutions are exposed in the book for the discriminative attitudes and practices that they are guilty of towards a person with epilepsy co-existing with mental health conditions.

Nicola Sturgeon First Minister of Scotland, Professor Rory O'Connor (Head of Scottish Suicide Behaviour Laboratory at Glasgow University), John Mason (Member of Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston) and Dr Sharp who is head of General Practice medicine at Glasgow University all received copies of this book.  

This book also tells the story about how the author avoided ever taking an anti-depressant or tranquiliser medication and conquered the many himalayan mountains each mental health condition had created for him by learning to self manage his own mental health symptoms through the use of meditation, visualisation, distraction, positive thinking, aerobic exercise, thought blocking, escapism and slow nasal breathing. The book also covers how the author managed to achieve a large reduction in seizure frequency through the use of these same symptom self-management techniques. Click on the following Links to read the follwing chapters: ................................