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from Jason (jasonpegler@yahoo.com)
Jason Pegler invites you to celebrate the publication of his autobiography A Can of Madness on Saturday 13th April (tomorrow) at 7.00pm at: The Lavender Pub 112 Vauxhall Walk Vauxhall London SE11 5ER (0207 735 4440)

Books will be available for £10 at the pub and £12 (inc P&P) at www.chipmunkapublishing.com where you can also read the first chapter for free. Proceeds are for charitable purposes.

Jason Pegler is 26, suffers from Manic Depression and is commited to improving conditions for the mentally ill and other persecuted groups in society. His intention in writing his memoirs of what it is like to live with Manic Depression are starting to shake up a long overdue heated debate on the appalling way in which people who suffer from mental stress are treated by society.

Jason Pegler has worked independently and with charities throughout the United Kingdom including the largest mental health charity in the country Mind. It is 93,000 words and the first 300 books will go to promotion and charity.

Copies of "A Can Of Madness" are now for sale for £12.00 (including p&p). Please make cheques payable to Chipmunkapublishing.

PO Box 6872 Brentwood Essex CM13 1ZT United Kingdom

What follows is intended to help people understand the condition of manic depression and similar mental illnesses. And I hope that sufferers, their families and friends - a significant 80% of them black - will gain strength from reading it. My own experience is that it's possible to emerge at the other end of adversity and live a decent life. Admittedly, you may have to make changes in your life and behaviour but that's a small sacrifice to make compared with the alternatives. The first step is to accept that you've got a problem, or rather, that there is a problem - the exact causes of which, more often than not, will forever remain unknown. The second is to deal with it - and the sooner the better. When writing this book, I often thought back to how long it took me to accept my own illness. I now know I can help at least one person cope with their illness better than I did. This alone makes the pain of writing it worthwhile.

(posted 8021 days ago)

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