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A Dance Between Darkness & Light: My Struggle With Bipolar Disorder

From: Aubrey Ralph
Length: 00:09:31

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When you look into the eyes of someone who’s Bi-Polar, it’s like looking at a hurricane from space. You can see the swirling mass, but the real horror and devastation are a hundred miles below you, only visible in your imagination. I have been fighting this for most of my life, and using story and sound design I'll take you into my mind, so you can see what that storm looks like from the inside. Read the full description.

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Rob Shinnick

Posted on June 05, 2011 at 02:49 AM | Permalink

Amen, brother

I happen to share the producer's condition. I thought it was described very aptly here, and creatively too.

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Wisconsin Public Radio: To The Best Of Our Knowledge - 29 May 2011

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A Dance Between Darkness & Light: My Struggle With Bipolar Disorder

Music in:

When you hear someone say Bipolar disorder, what comes to mind? What do you think of? Those comedy / tragedy drama masks, or eccentric musicians, who famously fell.

Cut: Hendrix

Maybe you’ve heard the term, but don’t really know what it means. Unlike Jimi Hendrix, most people with bipolar disorder are not open about it, and there are a lot of us. Its been estimated that 5.7 million Americans are Bipolar. That’s 2% of the population, including myself, living mostly in the dark. Unlike a disease of the body, a sickness of the mind fundamentally changes who you are. It messes with your programing like a virus in a computer. Bipolar disorder is especially devastating because of the way it tears you back and forth between invincibility and hopelessness. Even when you find the courage to seek help, doct...
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Intro and Outro

INTRO:

When you look into the eyes of someone who’s Bi-Polar, it’s like looking at a hurricane from space. You can see the swirling mass, but the horror and devastation are a hundred miles below you, only visible in your imagination.
Well, producer Aubrey Ralph has been living in that storm for most of his life, and he’ll be our guide, taking us down past the clouds, and into the darkness that lies at the core of it.

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Title Artist Album Label Year Length
Riverz End Skinny Puppy Last Rights . Nettwerk/Capitol 1992 00:20
Manic Depression Jimmy Hendrix Are You Experienced. Track Records 1967 00:10
A.I.N. Obka Cuts From The Vault . Follow/Sunset 2008 01:06
Lux Aeterna Stuttgart Schola Cantorum 2001: A Space Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Turner Entertainment 1968 00:43
Help Me, I Am In Hell Nine Inch Nails Broken . TVT/Interscope Records 1992 00:40
Moodswing Doubting Thomas The Infidel . Wax Trax Records 1991 00:45
Poison Alice Cooper Trash. Sony Music Entertainment 1989 00:12
Something I Can Never Have Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine. 1989 00:04
Fritter Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park. Nettwerk/Capitol 1990 00:20
Natures Revenge Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park . Nettwerk/Capitol 1990 00:23
Corona Radiata Nine Inch Nails The Slip. The Null Corporation 2010 01:10
The Pedestrian Boogie The Bloodsugars I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On. Engine Room Records 2009 00:55

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