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For its 5th anniversary issue, bp magazine checked back in with me, Carrie Fisher, Ross Szabo, Wambui Bahati, Jane F. Mountain, Paul Jones, Keri Aitken-Toby, Victoria Maxwell and Julie and Daniel Williams.
Fox News Sunday "Power Player of the Week" with Chris Wallace, December 2009
WJLA-TV and News Channel 8 with Rebecca Cooper, November 2009
A wonderful opportunity presented itself in November 2009 to give the keynote lecture at the Knight Center for Ethics in Journalism Institute at Washington & Lee University. I've included links to the video from C-SPAN, the audio from Washington & Lee and prepared text of the lecture. In the lecture, I said that I hoped that this would be my last public lecture on my career in journalism, although I have continued to speak in more private settings to students. I spoke to students at Roosevelt University and Columbia College-Chicago prior to the lecture at Washington & Lee, and gave lectures to students at Patrick Henry College, the University of Albany and Everett High School in East Lasing, Michigan. While I have worked to keep the lectures as private as possible, we have not closed any of them to members of the news media.
In October, WebMD luanched a website on bipolar disorder. They interviewed me with clients, colleagues and at a school IEP meeting for a stories about cleaning up the mess in a life of a person who has bipolar disorder and on maximixing the beautify in life. WebMD, with a grant from AstraZeneca, also produce similar films on Patty Duke, the American actress, on her history with bipolar disorder, Maruce Benard, the General Hospital actor, discussing how his career impact treatment for bipolar disorder, Robyn Mandleberg, a psychologist and mother, on being a mom and having bipolar, Ross Szabo, the director of Youth Outreach for the Mental Health Awareness Campaign and co-author of "Behind Happy Faces" and finding individual treatments that work for you, and Ryan Christman, a peer counselor and writier who has bipolar disorder. The site also includes educational information on therapies and other approaches.
Surburbs, the Safe Harbor of Reinvention
Latest to Be Lured Here, Scandal-Bitten Reporter Tries Hand as Life Coach
The Washington Post, August 21, 2009
Jayson Blair Returns as a Life Coach
Disgraced reporter says he draws on his own coping mechanisms to help clients
The Washington Post, August 21, 2009
Jayson Blair and Michael Oberschneider, PsyD, on NPR's WYNC Radio
WYNC/NPR, August 21, 2009
Ex-Reporter now working as life coach
The Associated Press, August 20, 2009
The Road to Recovery
DBSA Outreach, Summer/Fall 2006
On My Mind / Eight Gifts
bp Magazine, Winter 2006
First Person Jayson Blair
Making a Turnaround
bp Magazine, Fall 2005
Survival through shared knowledge, support
Times Community Newspapers, Fall 2005
I have also contributed to a chapter on mental illness and legal cupibility to Larry King's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and written an autobiography that addressed my struggle with untreated mental illness called Burning Down My Masters' House: A Personal Descent into Madness that Shook the New York Times.
 
Here's a list of some of my favoriate charities. Please check them out:
Rebeccas Dream - A partnership between the Rebecca Lynn Cutler Legacy of Life Foundation and the Depression bipolar Support Alliance to "promote awareness and compassionate understanding of depression and bipolar disorder as real diseases."
Homestretch - A non-profit organization that empowers homeless families and children under the age of 18 in Northern Virginia to return to stable housing and become self-sufficent by helping them develop skills, obtain knowledge and gain hope.
Nick Traina Foundation - A foundation started by Danielle Steel as a legacy to her son who lost his life to manic depression. The foundation provides grants for diagnosis, research, treatment and family support of manic depression.
Native Project - A non-profit that provides direct educational, health and other services in durg and alcohol free environments, promotes spiritual, cultural and traditional Native American values and promotes Native American awareness.
Mental Health Project of the Urban Justice League -
The mental health project serves seriously and persistantly ill New Yorkers break the cycle of homelessness, hospitalizaiton and incareration.
Gift Fund at the National Institute of Mental Health - Unrestricted grants to help pay for fellowships, salaries, training, equipment, supplies, workshops, conferences and other things connected to mental health research.
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