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RedRocket
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 Posted - 05/27/2005 : 09:43:05
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| Is brilliant. Every bipolar person should read this book |
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| SuperG
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Posted - 05/27/2005 : 17:49:35
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I reserved a copy at my local library...am still waiting for it.
MAN-IC-DE-PRESSION-IS-A-FRUS-TRA-TED-MESS!!! |
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| PolarOne
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456 Posts
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Posted - 05/29/2005 : 04:07:06
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Changed my whole outlook on mood disorders for the better.
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title." Virginia Woolf |
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| Jana
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Posted - 06/08/2005 : 20:14:27
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I went out and bought it. Its a great book.
Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you. He will never let the righteous fall" Psalms 55:22 |
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| sbauer
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Posted - 10/15/2005 : 07:16:01
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This is the book I bought and read on the day I received the "diagnosis"...I was looking for proof that it couldn't be true, yet in the reading the book saw much of myself and realized that it could be true. It was a solace, and an educating book. A fascinating read.
SB |
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| JPoo
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Posted - 10/27/2005 : 11:43:44
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| I did not think Jamison was self-reflective. There are many other books by BDs that I thought offered more inside track on the experience. Try Slater, Thompson, Wurtzel, Pollard, Mays, Manning or Millett. |
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| Ferengi (inactive)
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Posted - 12/09/2005 : 11:10:39
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Mays in my opinion is unreadable. Too much Southern Gothic.
Ferengi |
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| claire56
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Posted - 02/08/2007 : 14:26:07
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Started this at the weekend having bought it the day after my diagnosis but been finishing the other one I posted about.
Really enjoying it so far - difficult to put fown and quite moving to read so much that is familiar!!!
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| guineapurple
Super Member (250+ posts)
412 Posts
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Posted - 10/03/2007 : 04:03:48
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just, finally, picked it up
started reading it
(the only other memoir on bp by a bp I never finished b/c it started to not make sense...the writer wrote while having episodes and it showed...it did not make me feel good)
I hope this one is good.
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| guineapurple
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Posted - 10/03/2007 : 04:04:51
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just, finally, picked it up
started reading it
(the only other memoir on bp by a bp I never finished b/c it started to not make sense...the writer wrote while having episodes and it showed...it did not make me feel good)
I hope this one is good.
GP |
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| EmergingArtist
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Posted - 10/03/2007 : 13:15:06
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I think it's a worthwhile read.
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| birkdale
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Posted - 02/14/2008 : 14:27:24
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| It was the first book I read after being diagnosed and I laped it up. |
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| chickabee
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Posted - 03/10/2008 : 06:57:00
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| I just found this book on half.com for $3.25 :) |
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| EmergingArtist
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Posted - 03/11/2008 : 15:01:26
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I recommend it, I read it several years ago, and I remember in it how she told about after she attempted suicide by slitting her wrists, a man she was involved with (maybe it was her husband, I don't remember for sure)--that he said he couldn't be with someone who had attempted suicide, and I felt so sad for her.
EAAge: 32
Sex: female
homemaker, married
Diagnosed Bipolar 1993 |
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| PolarOne
Super Member (250+ posts)
456 Posts
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Posted - 03/12/2008 : 02:43:45
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| I stumbled upon this one quite by accident 11 years ago, seems to have opened the floodgates for other authors to write their own autobiographies since that time. She pitches up in my home county in the book which surprised me, I'm thinking she may have been researching Sylvia plath perhaps for 'Touched With fire'. The epilogue was the most interesting part for me. |
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| libby6
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Posted - 11/15/2008 : 15:17:17
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| One of my "desert island" books! Have read it many times. Enjoyed reading when it first came out and related to it so well, but never saw myself in the book. But as I've gotten older and been formally diagnosed bp, I now really see myself in this book. However I am still not a well-paid doctor (nor a well-paid anything for that matter!!) I wish I knew how she managed this great career. |
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An Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamieson
