Stability In Mind
Feb 06, 2018
Neil Cole
Stability In Mind

Neil Cole, Author:  ‘Stability In Mind’

‘This memoir is the story of the first politician in Australia to publicly admit to having a mental illness - bipolar mood disorder. Neil Cole was a lawyer, a Melbourne City Councillor and a Member of the Victorian Parliament.

After only five years in parliament he was diagnosed with bipolar mood disorder and put onto lithium. The revelation, the cathartic experience of this diagnosis changed his life forever. Having lived with the unpleasantness of the illness, the lack of diagnosis over a period of seventeen years since he first sought treatment, and the onset of the illness, made it difficult to adjust

Finally, whether it is his early life, school, university, family upbringing, politics or the stage it is all interesting, novel, lots of humour, pathos, and revelation about living with a mental illness. The memoir will offer hope and an explanation of how to live with bipolar mood disorder’.

Neil's current play is:  'Nina Simone; Liberian Days.    At : Prahran's 'Chapel Off Chapel'

Chair:  Henry Drury