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Manic Manifesto The unlikely prophet Prequel – episode. 5 By Dan Joyce ©2023   I watch atheist videos online at night, because they are dry and boring and put me to sleep. But then I wake up the next morning not believing in God. When people ask you how you're doing, they don't always want you say, fine. So I try to tell them every little bit of how I'm doing... I should just say, fine. On my gravestone, I want written the words, I did it! Which sounds like an accomplishment, but I'm not gonna tell them what I...

Birth of a Prophet the unlikely prophet  prequel episode 4 by Dan Joyce ©2023 Many people see me distressed and insist I follow their way instead. Some think it's work, others religion. To my fans it is and has always been my writing and my art. That's why we do it. That's why we paint and write. Because truly for us, there is no other way of life. My father died of cancer around 2010. He promised to leave me money because of my disability , a stipend that I was to receive monthly. At first they suspiciously hid the will as...

            If you like this story, please support with a PayPal, credit or debit card donation so I can make more and continue to advocate on behalf of the mental health community.   Ladies and Gentlemen Miss Liberty Belle a musical play By © Dan Joyce ©2018 Contact by commenting below. I review all comments before they can be posted. Mention if you want the comment private or email me at danjoyce.dj@gmail.com   Character List   in order of appearance Belle O’Brien - Liberty Belle Narrator Worker - hospital psychtech patient - patient in hospital...

  Alcoholism and Mental Illness   I attend AA, but early on they realized I had a mental illness requiring medication. Immediately they opposed this saying I didn’t need it and that I was addicted to drugs. It seemed foolish and really quite ignorant to me that they had no idea about my condition, schizoaffective a light combination of bipolar and schizophrenia, or what the signs and symptoms could be or how to treat it. They took simple phrases from their book, the big book as they called it, which really isn’t that big, 164 pages. So they found terms...