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Double trouble: living with manic depression: a personal story and a practical guide
- Author:
- RHODES Pauline
- Publisher:
- Fourems
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 76p.
- Place of publication:
- Hertford
An account of the realities of living with bipolar disorder. The author began to suffer from this disorder following the traumatic birth of her twins. The death of her father and subsequent illness of her mother prompted a further spell and the death of her mother another relapse. The book covers living with the illness in and out of psychiatric units, and sources of comfort including music, silk painting and writing. It also covers the religious question, conventional and alternative therapies (acknowledging the value of drugs while pointing out the need to be careful of drugs which may have an interaction), exercise, and work including volunteering, training, including gaining a Distinction in the Certificate in Interpersonal Skills for Volunteers at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and eventually working for ‘Rethink’. The author acknowledges the ways in which the illness has enriched her life by widening insight into the power of the human mind and enabling empathy with others suffering from severe mental illness. She also pays tribute to her family and offers some practical self-help for depression.
A voice in the distance
- Author:
- SUZUMA Tabitha
- Publisher:
- Definitions
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 245p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This novel for young adults includes a main character who suffers from manic depression, and illustrates the challenges faced by someone living with bipolar disorder.
The pits and the pendulum: a life with bipolar disorder
- Author:
- ADAMS Brian
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 158p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Writing a prize-winning play; spending a week doing nothing but build Lego constructions; sinking all his savings into wildly impractical money-making schemes - these are just some results of the periods of intense creative energy the author has experienced throughout his adult life. As a sufferer of bipolar disorder, he has also been hospitalised several times with debilitating depression and undergone electric shock treatment, and gained and lost eleven jobs. This account gives insight into how it feels to experience bipolar disorder.
A can of madness
- Author:
- PEGLER Jason
- Publisher:
- Chipmunkapublishing
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 300p.
- Place of publication:
- Brentwood
The author offers his readers a unique opportunity to emphasize with sufferers of the condition known as Manic depression ( Bi-Polar disorder) in this compelling account of his ordeal with this illness. The author takes the reader through his personal transformation from an uncouth teenager taking ecstasy to someone who grows up realising that they can use their own past pain, get better and help other people. The book was written using excerpts of a diary written at the time of the author’s flights into mania and his descents into depression. The author recounts a dizzying, dark and sometimes euphoric journey through a world of elation, despair, binge drinking, drugs, raves, and psychiatric wards.