Chuck Elliot's CRAZYBYTES

Welcome to Chuck Elliot's CRAZYBYTES,
my autobiographical story of life as a bipolar (manic-depressive) person surviving the mental health system.

still crazy 19 years - 12/3/2001

Much of it is funny. Much is outrageous.

(btw, I am the original CRAZYBYTES on Geocities, with user name Crazybytes [later with ".geo" added].
Now there are 100's of sites using the name.)

My story was published in my million-circulation local paper, receiving many awards.
Included here, in addition to that, are my personal writings.
Subsequently, I have appeared in 2 textbooks. [Would be nice if they both got my permission.]

CRAZYBYTES includes 4 major sections - Crazy Pages (my book), Chuck's Newsletter, Journals/ Speeches, and Newspaper articles about me

Click the link for each section below for its menu and/or view recently added and my choices of chapters and articles listed here:

my book, Crazy Pages

chapter 1.
WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS TO ME? or HERE COMES MY FIRST NERVOUS BREAKDOWN - including 12/3/2001 update

chapter 10.
CONSERVATORSHIP,1988-1989

"I had a judge who looked like he was ninety-years old and seemed to have six eyes."

chapter 1 4.
LOVE WITH THE MENTALLY ILL, 1988-2001

"Once when I was thinking about how long it was since I had sex, Marsha, one of the board & care girls gave me some care on her last weekend there. Her romantic line was, 'I'll have sex with you if you get me a beer at the liquor store.'"

chapter 18.
POETRY, 1982-1993

"...I said to the shrink,
'Do you know what love is?'
He said, 'You're being admitted for being
a danger to yourself and others.'..."

chapter 20.
MANIC TAPES, DECEMBER 1990

I recorded my manic episode including being admitted to the psych hospital.

"As I was saying 2 weeks ago, 'God, if I be not Christ, why is everybody trying to crucify me?'
A song I wrote last time at CMH:

'We do not crucify in the wink of an eye...'"

Chuck's Newsletter

#25

WEEK OF THE
ELEPHANT (WOE)
- I was institutionalized
following the 1996 RNC
My Experiences during the 1996 RNC
(Republican National Convention)
in San Diego

#27 14th anniversary edition
Attack & War on Terrorism

#26 13th anniversary edition
10 days with G-d

journals, speeches

an award-winning San Diego Union-Tribune article about me.

This site is updated often, so please bookmark it and come back periodically. Thank you.
�1982-2001 Charles A. Elliot; ACE Express Los Angeles, San Diego, CA; ACE Unlimited Corp., Wilmington, DE