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FearsomeAnna
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Default Dec 29, 2003 at 09:09 PM
 
I've read both An Unquiet Mind and Touched By Fire, which are wonderful books. A book that I found to be very, very helpful is a book called Bipolar Disorder Demystified by Lana Castle. The author has the disease and the book covers everything from mental disorder myths, to physiology, to symptoms and treatments. It's a wonderful resource without pandering to "victimhood" - I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about - the awful books that encourage an "oh, woe is me" approach to mental disease. This book recognizes that bipolar disorder, while not to be taken lightly, is a manageable disease on par with, say, diabetes.

Go! Go and read it! That's an order :-p
~Anna

some of it's magic
some of it's tragic
but i had a good life all the way......
~jimmy buffett

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Thanks for this!
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