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Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1

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I will be on Good Morning America Now on 3/24. Below is the description of show and press release. Please take the opportunity to watch. Subject: Eric Arauz featured on Good Morning America NOW Mind & Mood Special Watch ABC's Good Morning America NOW on Monday at 9:00am for our one hour special on Mind & Mood. In it, various aspects of living with mental illness are explored, both medical opinions and testimonials from those that live with mental illness. This special seeks to remove some of the stigma surrounding psychiatric illness by providing a frank, transparent discussion with physicians and patients about their experience. The program will air on ABC's 24 hour digital channel, ABC News NOW. Check with your local cable provider for the number of the channel. The program will also be posted on Monday on our special "On Call" section on our website, ABCNEWS.com. Eric Arauz Patient Advocate, National Alliance on Mental Illness A professional inspirational speaker, an “In Our Own Voice”* presenter for NAMI New Jersey and a Consumer Tobacco Advocate for the CHOICES program-UMDNJ. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder I in 1996 and has a family history of mental illness – his biological father died in 1993 after living on the streets with an untreated mental illness. Eric was institutionalized at the Veterans Administration Maximum Security Mental Institution in 1996, at one point he was deemed untreatable. Following his release from the VA, he enrolled in college and received an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University, earning high honors. In 2000, he was married and in 2004, received a master's degree in Labor and Employment Relations from Rutgers University, graduating at the top of his class. After spending some time working in the business world, Eric is now inspired to communicate a message of recovery, with the hope that others will not face the same fate his father did. Eric has recently been accepted into a doctorate program at Rutgers University and plans to begin coursework in the fall. Eric worked with us on a series of radio interviews for Bipolar Disorder Awareness Day in October and is a wonderful advocate. His website is www.ericarauz.comRadiohead - Idioteque
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CESSATION OF SUFFERING,UNITY, CONNECTION IN STREAMS OF THOUGHT AND CONSCIOUSNESS, THE BIG BANG AND THEORIES OF COSMIC EVOLUTION, TRANSGRESSING THE BARRIERS TO MYSELF, NOW
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WWW.ERICARAUZ.COM My name is Eric Arauz and I am an Inspirational Speaker that has Bipolar Disorder 1. I was first diagnosed in 1995 as Bipolar 1 and Alcoholic. I was released from the United States Navy in 1994 on a medical discharge after all ten of the primary toe knuckles in my feet were removed and the bones fused together and have a ruptured big screw sitting across the primary joint in my left big toe. I was born with Poland Syndrome, this is a birth defect of having no left pectoral muscle, major and minor, and an under developed left wrist and hand, leading to arthritis in my left hand and both my feet. My biological father,Einar Arauz, died of untreated mental illnes after he had abandoned my family and he attempted to end my life when I was 12. This caused me to reach a weight of 265 pounds going into eigth grade in 1984. I lost 116 pounds between the start of eight grade and ninth grade in 1985. I have been in 3 maximum security institutions including the maximum security wing of a Veterans Adminstration hospital in 1996, my second maximum security incarceration. I was untreatable and my family was being counseled on dealing with a permanently institutionalized family member. I was strapped down in four point restraints for a period of over twenty hours.MY LIFE WAS OVER: THERE WAS NO COMING BACK FROM THE LANDSCAPES OF HELL I WANDERED INTO: 26 YEARS OLD AND A LIFE DESTROYED. YOU NEED A DEATH BEFORE YOU CAN HAVE A RESURECTION AND I AM HERE TO SING FROM THE ROOFTOPS THE STORY OF MY SECOND CHANCE WITH THE HOPE IT CAN AWAKEN OTHERS TO THE BEAUTY AND OPPORTUNITY IN THERE OWN LIVES.Since 1996, I have escorted my step-dad,Bud Powers, through a 4 yr terminal illness that defeated him in 2000. I have earned a Bachelor Degree from Rutgers University with High Honors in 2000; I have earned a Master's Degree from Rutgers University with a 3.85 g.p.a. and was the lead researcher for the United Nations Association N.J. and a graduate Teacher's Assistant. I am sober over 10 years and married to the woman of my dreams. The most beautiful person I have ever met inside and out. My life is a gift that I must share. I currently go throughout the United States as an Inspirational Speaker helping others transgress their self determined limitations and live the life they desire. My message is one of love, understanding and compassionate energy from a fellow sufferer that existed on the absolute fringes of society. I was homeless and destitute when I re-entered the world after the Veterans Administration Hospital and now I stand in the sunlight of Universal optimism and walk the path of a blessed survivor. I hope to sit and meet with you all in the coming days as we make our way forward in this world. BE VERY CLEAR ON THIS: YOU DETERMINE WHO YOU ARE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT, TAKE THIS POWER BACK AND LIVE A LIFE DETERMINED BY YOUR ESSENCE AND ONLY VALIDATED BY YOURSELF. I love, cherish and accept you because I love,cherish and absolutely accept myself. I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED TO GET A DOCTORATE FROM RUTGERS UNIVERSITY IN THE SOCIAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION.UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eric“If someone has helped you and you make of him your authority, then are you not preventing all further help, not only from him, but from everything about you? Does not help lie about you everywhere? Why look in only one direction? And when you are so enclosed so bound, can any help reach you? But when you are open, there is unending help in all things, from the song of a bird to the call of a human being, from the blade of grass to the immensity of the heavens. The poison and corruption begin when you look to one person as your authority, your guide, your saviour.” Jiddu Krishnamurti Commentaries On Living Series II Chapter 45 'Help'====================================================== ============================================================ =========================================================BUD POWERS, EINAR ARAUZ, Siddharta Gautama, LAO TZU, MEISTER ECKHART, JESUS OF NAZARETH, GANDHI, EDWARD MILLER SENIOR, ASHLEY NICOLE, CHERYL'S REIMER GRANDPA, WALT WHITMAN, ANY NAVY SEAL, LOCKE-BACON-NEWTON-MOZART-FREUD, MOSES, JOHN BELUSHI, MARY (MAGDELENE AND JESUS MOM), MARCUS AUREILIUS, EINSTEIN, RANIER MARIA RILKE,CHUCK LIDDELL, VAN GOGH, DARWIN, KISSINGER, ME IN TEN YEARS

Music:

MARLEY, BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS, DISTURBED, INDIGO GIRLS, PINK FLOYD, BIGGIE SMALLS, DMX, DAVID BOWIE, THE WHO, TRAPT, STP, GNR, ROBERT JOHNSON, JOHNNY CASH, HELMET, OZZY, P.I.L., TOOTS AND MAYTALS, SLIPNOT, CRANBERRIES, ELEPHANT MAN========================================================= ===========================================================â €œA human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein”Namaskar Eckhart Tolle: Yes!
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Movies:

POWDER, MUNICH, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, RUDY, PI, OLD SCHOOL, JAWS, PLATOON, BLACK HAWK DOWN, WALL STREET, APOCALYPSE NOW, ROAD TRIP======================================================== ============================================================ ==="I exist as I am, that is enough. Walt Whitman" Jim Valvano's Speech
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Television:

THE SHIELD, RESCUE ME,FAMILY GUY, THAT 70'S SHOW, ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP================================================ =======“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa” Eckhart Tolle - Quite Ordinary
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Books:

KIM BY KIPLING, LEAVES OF GRASS BY WHITMAN, THE MIND OF GOD BY PAUL DAVIES, BOOK OF HOURS-LOVE POEMS TO GOD BY RILKE, MOBY DICK-MELVILLE, THE IDIOT-DOSTOEVSKY, WEEKENDS WITH MAURIE-ALBOM, POWER OF MYTH-CAMPELL, ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS-NIETZSCHE, ANYTHING BY H.L. MENCKEN PAST EDITOR BALTIMORE SUN, ON KILLING-LT. COL. GROSSMAN, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK-W.E.B. DUBOIS, ANYHTING BY J.KRISHNAMURTI, HEART OF DARKNESS-CONRAD, THE ENLIGHTENED MIND======================================================== ========================================================“B e an opener of doors for such as come after thee.R.W. Emerson”Bob Marley Natural Mystic Live
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Heroes:

MY MOM, MY SISTERS, MY DECEASED STEP-DAD, FELLOW OVERCOMERS, ALL SERVICEMEN/WOMEN IN CURRENT CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST======================================================== =========================================================="T hat in whom reside all beings and who reside in all beings, who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being--I am That." Amritbindu UpanishadKrishnamurti on Death
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My Blog

GOOD MORNING AMERICA LINKS TO SPECIAL ERIC ARAUZ FEATURED ON MARCH 24, 2008

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=506802Am I Depressed? / Answers to your questions on identifying and treating depressionhttp://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4506862 Patients Open Up / ...
Posted by Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1 on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:42:00 PST

Eric Arauz featured on Good Morning America NOW Mind & Mood : 3/24/08

Subject: Eric Arauz featured on Good Morning America NOW Mind & Mood Special Watch ABC’s Good Morning America NOW on Monday at 9:00am for our one hour special on Mind & Mood. In it, various aspe...
Posted by Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1 on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:12:00 PST

Shame vs. Guilt

No one thing can combat shame. It paints all it comes in contact with and sickens it systematically. My shame lived an inch or two behind my eyes. With this vantage point, all I took in was deciphered...
Posted by Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1 on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:26:00 PST

Making Ourselves Zero...Gandhi’s principle and Anna’s smile

"Making ourselves zero...." this quote comes from Gandhi and his core belief to let go of the answers to our efforts and to keep moving, free from results. The philosophers of Greece were the first to...
Posted by Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1 on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:09:00 PST

What ward are you in?

I just finished Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward. It is set in 1950 Russia, post Stalin. It takes place predominantly in a cancer ward that doesn't even allow the patients to know what they are tr...
Posted by Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1 on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:51:00 PST

Only a true answer raises no further questions...?

Only a true answer raises no further questions....?     I was just verbally accepted into a doctorate program at Rutgers Univ. in the Social and Philosophical Foundations of education. ...
Posted by Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1 on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:09:00 PST

Review of 2 1/2 Hour Speech given to National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependency on Nov. 30

Eric Arauz came to speak to our clinical staff of addiction professionals. I had heard that he was an amazing inspirational speaker and was looking forward to hearing his presentation. Everything I ha...
Posted by Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1 on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:35:00 PST

Rally for Recovery-You Tube Clip

There is a brief clip of me speaking in this 6 1/2 minute youtube clip. I come on at 2:48 for about 30 seconds. Enjoy  the whole clip it is uplifting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvgQYGEfUDs&a...
Posted by Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1 on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:34:00 PST

Life as metaphor...drop the windshield

Ranier Maria Rilke, the 19th century German Existentialist poet, is said to have died because he could not live life with out a windshield. He needed to look at life with no buffer and in that clean g...
Posted by Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1 on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:49:00 PST

A day in Hell before a day of Thanks="Gratitude is Heaven itself"

"Gratitude is Heaven itself." William Blake I spent yesterday on the grounds of Ancora State Psychiatric Hospital to make a few presentations for my job with UMDNJ(University of Medicine and Dentistry...
Posted by Eric Arauz INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER BIPOLAR 1 on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:42:00 PST