Pick Up the Phone Tour Cancelled

What was to be an awesome tour has been cancelled. Justin Furstenfeld, lead singer/songwriter of Blue October did not appear at the Pick Up The Phone Press Conference Wednesday, October 21st on Capitol Hill in Washington DC due to a medical emergency. First thoughts are someone in his family is sick. Nope. The following was released today:

(New York, NY – October 22, 2009) The Pick Up The Phone Tour 2009 has been canceled due to the hospitalization of Justin Furstenfeld, lead singer of the tour’s headlining band Blue October. Furstenfeld, who was also the spokesperson for Pick Up The Phone Tour 2009, is being treated for suffering from an extreme mental anxiety attack. His doctors have ordered that the tour—which was committed to reducing the stigma associated with mental health, depression, and suicide—be canceled to allow for his recovery.

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This is the perfect example of how bipolar disorder disrupts your life. You can be a person who has absolutely everything & it still strikes. You can be a spokesperson for the disease & have it knock you down. It does not discriminate. You don't wake up in the morning & go "Hey I feel like being a lil melodramatic today", it's something you have no control over.

With this disorder you fight to keep your head above water but sometimes you find yourself beneath that wave & unfortunately that's exactly what's happened to Justin. Please keep him & the rest of us who suffer from this disorder in your thoughts & prayers.

I have hope that I can stay above that wave.