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I would have liked to know more about bi-polar. It was a well written book and gave you some information about bi-polar for a laymen's mind.
She brings to her profession, to her readers a first hand knowledge and understanding of what it's like to feel yourself soaring one moment and crashing to pieces the next, what total despair looks and feels like.The author describes the difficulty in telling colleagues and friends about her manic-depression. We meet the Mousehearts and, I hope, shake our heads at their complete lack of empathy and understanding.Jamison aptly describes depression as "flat, hollow, and unendurable.tiresome.you're frightened, you're frightening." She's so spot on--the illness is so often isolating as people will often react as if they've just met a leper. If you flip through my copy of "An Unquiet Mind", you will find page after page of underlined and starred gems, such as "My few remaining islets of judgment reached out to one another and link up long enough to conclude that this particular situation was going to be hard to explain."Kay R. How by not disclosing her depressions, suicide attempts, manical spending, and manias, it "consigns the friendship to an inevitable level of superficiality." She has a name--Mouseheart--for those who react to her disclosure with disappointment and unkindness. We see the grotesque and ugly and the "incredible and beautiful" corners of Jamison's unquiet mind and we are better off for her honest, intelligent portrayal.Marie Estorgeauthor of "Confessions of a Bi-Polar Mardi Gras Queen"and "Storkbites: A Memoir" both penned under Marie Etienne Jamison is a professor of psychiatry, and An Unquiet Mind followers her in building a highly respected career. Her story is far from dry and academic; it's beautifully written, frank, insightful, and lucid.Jamison is in a field where many may question whether a mentally imbalanced person is qualified to treat others struggling with mental illness.
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Everyone should read this and believe this illness is real and there is no cure. I know because one of my loved ones fights this and it is a war of all wars. I loved this book. Any survivor of this illness are my hero. Bless everyone in this group of people. I found this book very helpful,caring and would love to meet the writer. She fights a very long and hard illness.
I can only imagine the courage and vitalitythat the author describes. This book is a first-hand account of manic depressive illness written by aresearcher and clinician who herself suffers from the illness. Jamison to experience a boundless realm of the mind few ever come to know.I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in an articulatefirst-hand account of manic depressive disorder. She is a remarkable woman and I can't helpbut wonder if in the illness's curse, also lies the blessings that have en-abled Ms. I have readsome of her previous work and especially recommend her article on cre-ativity and madness that was published in Scientific American severalyears ago.The author discusses the impact of manic depression on her personal andprofessional life, examining the profound depths and zeniths of the mindthat go along with this illness. This book is open and brave.
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