Pierre Trudeau was the Prime Minister of Canada when I travelled as a pioneer to Australia in 1971 for the Canadian Baha’i community. By Jult 1971 I was teaching primary school in South Australia. In March 1971, three months before I left Canada, Trudeau married Margaret Sinclair, a beautiful 18 year old flower child of the counter-culture from the sixties. She was 30 years younger than he. Four years ago, in 2006, Margaret Trudeau went public about her lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder(BPD). This year, in 2010, her story of that battle is in a book entitled: Changing My Mind1. –Ron Price with thanks to 1Andrew Cohen, “What A long, strange trip it’s been,” The Globe and Mail, 22 October 2010.
Thanks, Margaret, for the story
of your tortuous journey, your
account of the extreme moods,
emotions which silently shaped
your life right back to childhood
in this your third memoir….BPD
made for an inconstancy in your
decades of living….that medical
affliction slowly getting socially
destigmatized at last..I started to
go public about the same time as
you did, Margaret, on the WWW
and you can find me at more than
100 internet sites which deal with
depression, affective disorders, and
BPD in mental health’s vast world.
Celebrities, like you, who go public
help folks like me…...the ordinarily
ordinary man who has also battled
through emotional turmoil’s road!!
Ron Price 25 November 2010
As of 2012 I have been: married for 45 years, a teacher for 35, a writer and editor for 13 and a Baha'i for 53.
