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The Myth of Mental Illness and the Truth About Mental Health: A Man’s Journey to Freedom

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Jed Diamond

Part 4 Four: Aces Are Great in Poker But Challenging in Life You can check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series. It never occurred to me that my lifelong anger and depression, and later my two broken marriages, had anything to do with my childhood. All that changed in 1998

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The Moonshot for Mankind: Healing Men, Women, and Offering Hope to Humanity

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Jed Diamond

MoonShotForMankind.com             On July 25, 2023, the Moonshot for Mankind, was launched, in partnership with Ubiquity University and Humanity Rising. At this stage of my career, spanning more than fifty years, I want to use the time I still have to make the most positive impact in the world. Research conducted by Randolph Nesse, MD

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The Myth of Mental Illness and the Truth About Mental Health: A Man’s Journey to Freedom

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Jed Diamond

Part 3 – Being Bipolar: Living in a World of Fire and Ice             In Part 1, I began sharing my father’s experience when he was committed to the mental hospital. In Part 2, I described his experience in a very different kind of hospital. I spent most of my life living in terror of

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The Myth of Mental Illness and the Truth About Mental Health: A Man’s Journey to Freedom

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Jed Diamond

Part 2 – An Atheist Checks into Gods Hotel             In Part 1, I described my experiences visiting my father in the mental hospital when I was five years old and my desire to help him and other men like him. I met an iconoclastic doctor, Thomas Szasz, when I was in graduate school and

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The Two Most Important Days in Your Life: The Day You Were Born and the Day You Found Out Why

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Jed Diamond

I hadn’t heard “the two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you found out why” until recently, but I can’t get them out of my mind. I learned that they were attributed to Mark Twain. I thought the first day was both obvious and simple: I

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The Myth of Mental Illness and the Truth About Mental Health: A Man’s Journey to Freedom

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Jed Diamond

Part 1 I was five years old in 1949 when my uncle drove me to the mental hospital. I was confused and afraid. “Why do I have to go?” I asked Uncle Harry. He looked at me with his round face and kind eyes. “Your father needs you.” “What’s the matter with him?” I was

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