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<p>The author is a journalist and writer who has obtained his expertise in depression in a most unwanted manner - that of battling the beast most of his life. The writer was born in Connecticut, obtained a law degree in New Zealand, worked as a business editor on a number of newspapers and magazines, then moved to Australia, where he published three books on business and finance. He is currently back in Connecticut at work on a fiction trilogy. In early 1999, following a series of crippling depressions, the author was diagnosed as bipolar. Soon after, he began writing on depression for the Suite as a means of coming to terms with his diagnosis, and not long after that launched the net's only independent weekly depression and bipolar newsletter. You can read his lifelong battles with depression and mania <a href="http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/depression/20048">here</a>, the first of a five-part series, and how writing for the Suite proved a key part of his recovery <a href="http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/depression/35333">here</a>.</p>