manic-depressive illness

A memoir of a woman who was diagnosed at twenty-four with the most severe form of bipolar disorder. Describes her earlier attempts to self-medicate through starvation, substance abuse, sex, and self-mutilation. Discusses how she built a life and marriage with bipolar always in the background.

"A seventeen-year-old suffering from bipolar disease wants to commit suicide, but a meaningful relationship and the care of a gifted psychiatrist alter her perception of her diagnosis as a death sentence"--Provided by publisher.

When her famous romance-novelist mother is secretly hospitalized in an expensive mental facility, sixteen-year-old Alice tries to fulfill her mother's contract with her publisher by writing a love story--with the help of Cupid.

"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--.

Fashion-loving twelve-year-old Tess moves with her deaf younger brother and impulsive single mother to Schenectady, New York, where they open an ice-cream shop and lead a campaign for urban renewal.

In the wake of a near-fatal car accident, Isaac Kew, twenty, recalls a very long walk he took three years earlier with his bipolar girlfriend, Nest.

"A sixteen-year-old girl living with bipolar disorder learns to balance romance, friendship, and grief"--.

"A seventeen-year-old suffering from bipolar disease wants to commit suicide, but a meaningful relationship and the care of a gifted psychiatrist alter her perception of her diagnosis as a death sentence"--.

"A seventeen-year-old suffering from bipolar disease wants to commit suicide, but a meaningful relationship and the care of a gifted psychiatrist alter her perception of her diagnosis as a death sentence"--Provided by publisher.

Presents information about bipolar disorder from the perspective of an experienced child psychiatrist, describing the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children; the causes, course, and outcome of bipolar disorder in youth; the assessment process; treatment options; and strategies of managing the problem at home and school.