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Don Walin

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Memoir, Sports, Nonfiction

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Don Walin has lived with manic depression (bipolar disorder) for over thirty years. Ultimately, this is a success story about overcoming a severe mental illness. He wrote this book in order to help others. He is looking forward to the future as an author and a mental-health advocate. Don lives in West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, with Ellen, his common-law wife of twenty years, and Stella, their Bernese Mountain Dog.

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The Crazy Golf Pro: My Journey with Bipolar Disorder

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The Importance of a Good Support System Battling Mental Illness

The people who you spend most of your time with, and who know you best, can be your best allies as a big part of your support system. A strong support system- comprising of family, friends, spouse, and co-workers is essential when battling mental illness.
Professionals and Peer Support Groups are also very important. The individual with a mental illness must like, respect, trust, and feel comfortab

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“The drugs kicked in immediately, and I felt the effects of the heavy sedatives very quickly. I tried to fight them off, but they took a very strong hold over my mind and body. That’s the last thing I remember for three days.”
― Don Walin, The Crazy Golf Pro: My Journey with Bipolar Disorder

tags: golf, memoir, mental-health, mental-health-awareness, mental-illness

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“Being behind bars is a degrading and humiliating experience. And I deserved to be there. I had to pay the consequences for driving drunk and causing an accident. In the end, I got off really lucky.”
― Don Walin, The Crazy Golf Pro: My Journey with Bipolar Disorder

tags: golf, memoir, mental-health, mental-health-awareness, mental-illness, mental-illness-stigma

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“I was really into this caddying job and on a natural high. Unbeknownst to me, I was showing symptoms of mental illness for the first time. I didn’t have a clue that I was
becoming progressively more manic as the day went along.”
― Don Walin, The Crazy Golf Pro: My Journey with Bipolar Disorder

tags: golf, memoir, mental-health-awareness, mental-illness, mental-illness-stigma

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