by Kay Redfield Jamison
I had a good friend that was diagnosed with Manic Depressive Disorder and he's the biggest reason this book called out to me when I saw it. I always wondered what was going on in there and what the manias and depressions felt like. I always thought that understanding would help me interact with him ...
A very poignant first hand account of the struggle with bipolar disorder from a clinical psychologist who studies and treats the disorder.
I picked up a used copy of this at the Goodwill. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating ...
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison writes about her life dealing with bipolar. Her struggle with schools, relationships and her inner critic. My own psychiatrist recommend this book hoping I would relate that this was another woman struggling with illness and gaining the upper hand on. I really did not find...
While it was somewhat informative in the ways I needed it to be, it was at the same time grating and depressing to read. It was very hard to swallow all the privileges Jamison had in helping her through her experiences with bipolar disorder, knowing what my father went through himself. He didn't hav...
I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt ...
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison writes about her life dealing with bipolar. Her struggle with schools, relationships and her inner critic. My own psychiatrist recommend this book hoping I would relate that this was another woman struggling with illness and gaining the upper hand on. I really did not find t...
I never read biographies but somehow picked up this. Fascinating and powerful.
The fact that Kay had suffered from this condition for so long, untreated, doesn't say much for modern psychology/psychiatry, does it? She also does not set a very good example as motivation for sufferers to take their medication.
I can give it a miss according to Meaghan's review.
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