When All Else Fails > Comments > "Rob... 45 years old... bipolar."
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- Rob Shinnick
- Username: lordmarcovan
- Location: Brunswick, Georgia
- Joined PRX: Oct 24, 2009
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- "When All Else Fails"
- Summary: "When All Else Fails" is a first-person account of a man undergoing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock (Award Winner: National Mental Health Association)
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Rob... 45 years old... bipolar.
Rob Shinnick
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 03:28 AM
Me too. I have the same name, am the same age, and have the same condition, so as you can imagine, this piece really punched me in the gut. Fortunately my case is much milder. Though I haven't yet found any medication or treatment that helped me much, I'm certainly not ready for ECT yet! Yikes! My heart goes out to our narrator, here. I see this piece is six years old and wonder how that other Rob is doing now. I hope he's managing well. It sure sounds like he's had his share of misery.