i'd like to share something...
for some time, i've had jaci velasquez's award winning song, on my knees, providing my blog with beautiful ambience, setting the mood quite nicely for reading and writing, so i decided to do some research on her, see who was encouraging myself and those who visit. not knowing exactly what i was searching for, i started with google and i found the most unexpected thing, something that adds a whole new perspective to the song, which is that she has bipolar disorder!
article:
By the time she was 23, Jaci Velásquez was already a Christian-music star, having won a Billboard Latin Music Award, earned three Grammy nominations and performed several times at the White House. But behind that success, Jaci was experiencing roller-coaster mood swings that left her sobbing inexplicably some days and feeling almost out of control on others. My family would always joke, Oh, you just never know what Jacis going to do next! she says. Shell just up and move away all of a sudden!
At first Jaci attributed such behavior to a series of upheavals in her personal life, including her parents divorce when she was 20, the adjustment to married life that followed her 2003 wedding to musician Darren Potuck and the backlash she endured for starring in the film Chasing Papi, about three women interested in the same man. I was heartbroken when some of my Christian fans called me names and spread rumors that I was in a porn film, she says. But as she grew more and more depressed, at one point telling her husband she didnt want to get out of bed anymore, Jaci realized she needed medical helpand in June 2004 she learned that her disturbing behavior was actually a result of bipolar disorder, a psychiatric illness afflicting more than 2.5 million American adults, half of them women. [It was such a reliefit was suddenly like, Oh, well, this makes sense now; I get it. ...]
Now able to control her health thanks to prescription medication, not to mention her strong sense of faith, Jaci, 25, is happily living in Nashville, where she runs her own music label, Apostrophe Records, and has finished work on her latest CD, Beauty Has Grace, expected to come out later this year. [...]
Bipolar disorder is a disease, but its a disease I can work with because Im aware of it. We have to find a way to deal with this, cause only when youre aware of something can you fix ityou know what I mean? And this makes me feel empowered. Im learning to live with a disease that might always be there. My familys constantly praying for me, which I totally appreciate and love, and for me, I just want to be happy. For so long, I wasnt happy. But Im finally happy now.
http://www.latina.com/articles/310.do
for some time, i've had jaci velasquez's award winning song, on my knees, providing my blog with beautiful ambience, setting the mood quite nicely for reading and writing, so i decided to do some research on her, see who was encouraging myself and those who visit. not knowing exactly what i was searching for, i started with google and i found the most unexpected thing, something that adds a whole new perspective to the song, which is that she has bipolar disorder!
article:
By the time she was 23, Jaci Velásquez was already a Christian-music star, having won a Billboard Latin Music Award, earned three Grammy nominations and performed several times at the White House. But behind that success, Jaci was experiencing roller-coaster mood swings that left her sobbing inexplicably some days and feeling almost out of control on others. My family would always joke, Oh, you just never know what Jacis going to do next! she says. Shell just up and move away all of a sudden!
At first Jaci attributed such behavior to a series of upheavals in her personal life, including her parents divorce when she was 20, the adjustment to married life that followed her 2003 wedding to musician Darren Potuck and the backlash she endured for starring in the film Chasing Papi, about three women interested in the same man. I was heartbroken when some of my Christian fans called me names and spread rumors that I was in a porn film, she says. But as she grew more and more depressed, at one point telling her husband she didnt want to get out of bed anymore, Jaci realized she needed medical helpand in June 2004 she learned that her disturbing behavior was actually a result of bipolar disorder, a psychiatric illness afflicting more than 2.5 million American adults, half of them women. [It was such a reliefit was suddenly like, Oh, well, this makes sense now; I get it. ...]
Now able to control her health thanks to prescription medication, not to mention her strong sense of faith, Jaci, 25, is happily living in Nashville, where she runs her own music label, Apostrophe Records, and has finished work on her latest CD, Beauty Has Grace, expected to come out later this year. [...]
Bipolar disorder is a disease, but its a disease I can work with because Im aware of it. We have to find a way to deal with this, cause only when youre aware of something can you fix ityou know what I mean? And this makes me feel empowered. Im learning to live with a disease that might always be there. My familys constantly praying for me, which I totally appreciate and love, and for me, I just want to be happy. For so long, I wasnt happy. But Im finally happy now.
http://www.latina.com/articles/310.do
