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Wetzel Productions offers shows, presentations, workshops, and products on the topics of clinical depression, dual diagnosis (depression/addiction) and bi-polar disorder for colleges and universities, conferences, corporate events and trainings, high schools, professional organizations and mental health consumer groups.

	Click on the following to view streaming video regarding the show: "The top 5 worst things you can say to someone with clinical depression..." - Side by Side DVD Comcast Local Edition Interview Brian Wetzel was recently named a 'Real Hero' by the American Red Cross for his educational work on clinical depression.

Brian Wetzel was a professional comedian and speaker whose career and personal life were absorbed by his 20 year struggle with clinical depression and subsequent addiction. Finally, after ending up at an emergency psychiatric clinic, Brian had to make direct eye contact with depression just to survive. After a visit with a psychiatrist who had a thick French accent, he started finding humor in a disorder that had once threatened his life. In his autobiographical one man show, "Side by Side: A Journey With Depression - a funny look at serious survival" and his other presentations, Brian blends his experiences with depression with his stage experience and takes his audiences on a unique journey of laughter, truth, and hope. By walking side by side with the affliction, he has learned to survive, strive, and move forward.

	"The mental health community has never seen anyone like Brian, and I know his type of creativity will be essential in transforming patient/consumer attitude from shame to recovery!" ~Paul Cumming, Client Outreach & Training Networkofcare.org

Tom Wootton was a successful corporate trainer who was mis-diagnosised for years until he was finally diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Though his own introspection and turning his skills as a trainer and workshop leader on the topic, Tom has developed a book "The Bipolar Advantage" and workshops and presentations that help professionals and those struggling with bi-polar disorder, to understand how to live and even thrive through the condition.

	"Tom Wootton is ahead of the pack. He is staking out new territory and leading the way in showing people with brain-based disorders like bipolar that it is possible to live richly." ~Maureen Duffy Ph.D.,