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Stories and Essays

Here are my stories and essays (I am Dr. Bradt, Ph.D. psychologist.) They have these two goals:

• To encourage and inspire persons living with mental illness.

• To describe what persons living with mental illness are really like.

Stories: Short and — Sweet?

Stories: Longer and — Scarier?

Stories: More Thoughtful

Educational Stories

Copyright © 2000, Jean M. Bradt, Ph.D., which means that you can copy anything you want off this site as long as you don't charge money for the copies. In fact, please give copies of these stories to anybody who stands to benefit from them! And please tell people that the stories came from the Will I Go Crazy? website.

Stories: Short and — Sweet?

1.  The Dancer: Judith is prejudiced against people living with mental illness. Then she realizes that she is dancing with one.

2.  Maybe Good: Maybe bad. Sometimes you just can't tell.

3.  Going to California: Diana, a "doormat", gets into a glamorous ballroom-dance trophy competition for free.

4.  Shrinks: Anne is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and she's happy about it.

Stories: Longer and — Scarier?

1.  Bipolar Zombie: A woman who is prejudiced against people living with mental illness dies. As fate (or voodoo) would have it, her mind is transferred to the body of -- a bipolar. 

2.  Can A Bipolar Find True Love? Annie teaches a third-grade class full of lovable kids including Pedro, who gets into all sorts of trouble, while she looks for a lover who won't run when he finds out that she is bipolar.

3.  Desiree: Desiree fights depression and practices her unique skill, the ability to read very subtle body language, while searching for fulfilling work.

4.  The Bright Nevada Sun: A story that may surprise you, but it also explains several ways that the government helps people living with mental illness (and other people) financially. 

5.  The Predecessors: Four people living with mental illness are nevertheless chosen for an extremely risky experiment, a trip to the alternate universe. 

Essays

1.  The Wild Ones: Some people like horses for riding. Some people like them for winning show prizes. Me, I like the wild ones.

2.  Happy Little Tunes: For those who like highly emotional, passionate music.

3.  The Three Faces of Margaret Mary Sweet: Who is Margaret Mary Sweet really? All we know for sure is that she has bipolar disorder.

4.  The Absent-Minded Memory Expert: Absent-mindedness doesn’t have much to do with memory.

5.  I Was a Middle-Aged Bingo Runner: I was.

6.  Gypsy Heart: Do psychotropic drugs make people's personalities zombie-like and their lives boring? Ask Claire.


Stories: Educational 
Learn more about mental illness the "fun" way, through fiction:

1.  For a story containing a ruthless welfare intake interview (verbatim), click on Welfare Woes.

2.  For an unconventional way to stop suicidal thoughts, click on Death, a tiny story about a confused woman, a mysterious man, and a kitten who likes variety.  

3.  For a tiny story illustrating racing thoughts, click on Speed.

4.  To learn more about lithium, click on Toxic Knowledge.  If you hear a gunshot, don't try to investigate. Doing that got Adrienne into big trouble.

5.  Moving Toward Enlightenment: Does work (working so hard that you neglect the people in your life) cause mental illness?

6.  Lizzie, a woman with a low self-concept, meets a man who is A Real Catch. Just how much will she let him get away with? 

7.  For a story about Tourette's syndrome and OCD , click on Dating the OCD Way. By Guest Author Pamela Franklin.

8.  A Misunderstanding: A speculative-fiction story about the importance of communication.

For more stories, click on The Any Dream Will Do Review

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