#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Status Update

#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Status Update: Every week should be #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek. It's always time to talk about #mentalhealth and #mentalillness: However, this morning I have come to realize that there is nothing more liberating and freeing than deciding to and committing to NOT doing, taking the full day off all work and activities, canceling all meetings, and so forth, just because I am overworked, and without sleep for days struggling with schizoaffective disorder, a mental disorder characterized by abnormal thought processes and deregulated emotions, in my case fluctuating with both bipolar disorder and depression. My diagnosis has been made because I have features of both #schizophrenia and a mood disorder. Mine has been recently aggravated with chronic insomnia. My responsibilities have already been taken care of. I simply NEED to, must and will stop everything and take the full day completely off, and I am. Right now. Thank you for sticking around as you are. I promise I will be checking things online and off throughout the day and be back another time, but beginning immediately I am committed to doing absolutely nothing in meditative contemplation and hopefully with some sleep. My day has been responsibly arranged, my friends, family, colleagues and associates are aware and understanding of my important and necessary decision at this point, to better my own mental and physical health while otherwise completely stressed out, overwhelmed, and totally exhausted. Thank you for understanding, especially being #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, which makes up for a great deal within my specialty, advocating and inspiring through mental health artistic endeavors. I will catch up with you all tomorrow and be back as usual. You can find me on Facebook and Twitter. I am an author who has written semi-fictional and semi-autobiographical bestselling novels, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography and Second Alibi: The Banality of Life, which are available on Amazon and through most major booksellers. I am also a noted, and sometimes controversial, outspoken author, mental-health advocate, fine artist, blogger, podcast host, patent holder, hedge-fund manager, musician, and film and TV writer and producer; Google me for more information. Thank you again! :)  Sincerely, Jonathan Harnisch