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My Bipolar Life: Guide to Maintenance & Recovery

THE CHALLENGE OF LIVING LIFE AS BOTH A BIPOLAR AND AN ALCOHOLIC.

Jane S. is one of the 60-percent (or more) of "manic depressives" (persons severely bipolar) who are also alcoholics. Her bipolar life story covers forty-seven years of sobriety and forty-five years on lithium therapy, how her illnesses have interacted, and particularly how much of the shape of her life -- and her achievement of her life's goals (including, for the last forty-seven years, sobriety) -- has been shaped by her bipolarity.

This book is important reading for those dealing with "manic depression," either in those close to them or in themselves, and even more for those who suffer from both of Jane's diseases. Her memories include, literally, the good (paying cash down for her first Mustang, though that was because she didn't know how to work a bank account), the bad (the sailboat she was on being boarded by the Coast Guard off Maryland), and the ugly (hearing her head being dribbled like a basketball outside her side-room in the hospital) -- and the very good, the white-light dream that began her recovery from alcoholism. She is believed to have been on lithium therapy for her condition longer than anyone else in the United States.

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My Bipolar Life: Guide to Maintenance & Recovery

THE CHALLENGE OF LIVING LIFE AS BOTH A BIPOLAR AND AN ALCOHOLIC.

Jane S. is one of the 60-percent (or more) of "manic depressives" (persons severely bipolar) who are also alcoholics. Her bipolar life story covers forty-seven years of sobriety and forty-five years on lithium therapy, how her illnesses have interacted, and particularly how much of the shape of her life -- and her achievement of her life's goals (including, for the last forty-seven years, sobriety) -- has been shaped by her bipolarity.

This book is important reading for those dealing with "manic depression," either in those close to them or in themselves, and even more for those who suffer from both of Jane's diseases. Her memories include, literally, the good (paying cash down for her first Mustang, though that was because she didn't know how to work a bank account), the bad (the sailboat she was on being boarded by the Coast Guard off Maryland), and the ugly (hearing her head being dribbled like a basketball outside her side-room in the hospital) -- and the very good, the white-light dream that began her recovery from alcoholism. She is believed to have been on lithium therapy for her condition longer than anyone else in the United States.

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My Bipolar Life: Guide to Maintenance & Recovery

My Bipolar Life: Guide to Maintenance & Recovery

by Jane S
My Bipolar Life: Guide to Maintenance & Recovery

My Bipolar Life: Guide to Maintenance & Recovery

by Jane S

Overview

THE CHALLENGE OF LIVING LIFE AS BOTH A BIPOLAR AND AN ALCOHOLIC.

Jane S. is one of the 60-percent (or more) of "manic depressives" (persons severely bipolar) who are also alcoholics. Her bipolar life story covers forty-seven years of sobriety and forty-five years on lithium therapy, how her illnesses have interacted, and particularly how much of the shape of her life -- and her achievement of her life's goals (including, for the last forty-seven years, sobriety) -- has been shaped by her bipolarity.

This book is important reading for those dealing with "manic depression," either in those close to them or in themselves, and even more for those who suffer from both of Jane's diseases. Her memories include, literally, the good (paying cash down for her first Mustang, though that was because she didn't know how to work a bank account), the bad (the sailboat she was on being boarded by the Coast Guard off Maryland), and the ugly (hearing her head being dribbled like a basketball outside her side-room in the hospital) -- and the very good, the white-light dream that began her recovery from alcoholism. She is believed to have been on lithium therapy for her condition longer than anyone else in the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781629620541
Publisher: Bent Twig Books
Publication date: 11/14/2017
Pages: 138
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.32(d)

About the Author

Jane S., originally from rural Pennsylvania, was first officially diagnosed as "Manic-Depressive" when she was thirty-one, after she was twenty-one months sober, but the symptoms had begun to appear when she had her first drink at fourteen. She was given "shock treatments" for her illness years before the official diagnosis.

Now retired from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, she lives in Central Pennsylvania with her husband and her grandson, Jeffrey. Her son Andrew lives a few miles away in Lancaster. She has been sober since October 1970 and on successful Lithium therapy since July 1972.

Table of Contents

A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR

MY STORY

Q&A: Manic Depression/Bipolar Condition

QUESTION 1: WHAT IS MANIC DEPRESSION?

QUESTION 2: HOW CAN IT BE TREATED?

QUESTION 3: VISION/DREAM? VR? CURE WITHIN?

QUESTION 4: BIPOLAR/ALCOHOLIC LINKS?

REFLECTIONS (SOME ON SUICIDE)

CONCLUSION

PRAYER

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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