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Bob Yamtich

Bob Yamtich

Part One: Reverence for Needs

I asked a teacher and parent what qualities she wanted built into a school. She chose compasssion, harmony, ease and comfort…

Oct 3, 2020

Oct 3, 2020

Bob Yamtich

Stumbling into a Manic Crisis Hotline

Before I suffered delusions, mania, and depression from bipolar disorder, I was called by my parents to support a family member in manic…

Jan 19, 2020

Jan 19, 2020

Bob Yamtich

Manic Crisis Hotline training also useful for friends and loved ones, or a manic person with a…

I’m having a new battery installed in my car; $174. I’m paying for this with wages from my riveting job, where I rivet the roofs of…

Dec 15, 2019

Dec 15, 2019

Bob Yamtich

Manic Crisis Hotline needs administrative support

I’m no good at implementation; ask my PhD advisor or spiritual director from my Notre Dame days. Hint: I’m neither a doctor nor a priest…

Dec 8, 2019

Dec 8, 2019

Bob Yamtich

Manic Support Hotline

Five weeks after my son was born, I left my dishwashing job after giving the owner a peace dollar “Your two kids can fight over it” and…

Dec 7, 2019

Dec 7, 2019

Bob Yamtich

Wonder and Beauty Without Psychotic Delusions

My therapist has been using a metaphor of climbing a ladder to describe rung by rung upwards progress maintaining stability and building a…

Nov 15, 2019

Nov 15, 2019

Bob Yamtich

The story I tell myself as I start a project is different from the story I tell myself when I…

I haven’t always been bipolar, to my knowledge, although I now trace my first struggles to adolescence. Upon the diagnoses of therapists…

Oct 30, 2019

Oct 30, 2019

Bob Yamtich

My two cents after two decades with bipolar mania and psychosis

Intro

Oct 30, 2019

Oct 30, 2019

Bob Yamtich

Perfectionism of Self and Other

These kids come by their perfectionism honestly. Most parents I meet suffer from their own brand of perfectionism. They are either being…

Oct 18, 2019

Oct 18, 2019

Bob Yamtich

Most bipolar authors describe a two part sequence- a manic episode followed by a depressive period.

I suggest that depression, or at least the threat of depression, comes first in time. Mania is an attempt to gather resources and change…

Oct 14, 2019

Oct 14, 2019

Bob Yamtich

Bob Yamtich

Coach, exMFT. I work for a world where all action and effort is based on choice and self-connection. bobyamtich.org

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