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Insanely Faithful
God's faithfulness in my insanity. A court once found me not guilty by reason of unsoundness of mind. This is what bipolar type 1 feels like from the inside, what it has cost, and how God has been faithful in the middle of it.
What's inside
- The day a judge said his hands were tied, and the peace I felt in a holding cell under the court.
- What bipolar type 1 actually feels like. Living like a blind man with a cane, tapping for the edges, asking "am I okay?"
- Coming off my medicine when I thought I had it nailed, and what it cost.
- How I went from believing in an angry Jesus to a kind one.
- For families: why we need you alert, not alarmed.
Every story in it is true. About 30 short pages. Read it online or download the PDF.
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Ten stories from the book
One per chapter. Free to read right now, no sign-up. Start wherever the title grabs you.
Story 1 One apple, ten men
The day a court found me not guilty, and I ended up sharing an apple in a cell underneath it.
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Story 2 Listening for the door
My first night locked in a forensic psychiatric ward, lying awake and listening for the door.
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Story 3 Twelve boxes on the veranda
The day my whole life arrived home in cardboard, and what I did next.
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Story 4 Permission to stay home
Why I skipped church on Sunday, and why that was the healthy call.
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Story 5 Finding the caramel
The day I built two websites and an app, and the moment I knew I had to stop.
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Story 6 "Well, you're an outlier"
The phone call where my psychiatrist told me I'd beaten the odds, and what happened three weeks later.
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Story 7 Time and presence
What finally showed me a kind Jesus wasn't a sermon. It was people who turned up.
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Story 8 Why I built Box of feels
The app I built to process my emotions started with one feeling: outrage.
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Story 9 Every driver needs a pit crew
What it looks like when someone at work gets bipolar type 1 and stays alert, not alarmed.
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Story 10 Why I'm still standing
My kids walked into a house and loved it. That's the reason I keep going.
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About Dave
Dave Bolt is a community chaplain, NDIS support worker, children's author and illustrator, and the creator of Box of feels. He lives on the Murray River in Western Australia and has lived with bipolar type 1 for more than twenty years.
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